Glasgow Argus

The Glasgow Argus was a Scottish newspaper, published biweekly from 1833 to 1847. It took a reforming editorial line, supporting abolitionism and opposing the Corn Laws.[1] The Argus was perceived as the paper of the supporters of the Glasgow merchant and politician James Oswald.[2] The first editor, William Weir, not only made the Argus the recognised organ of the "clique", as Oswald's Whig and Liberal supporters were known, but pursued a radical editorial line of his own.[3] Eventually in 1839 he was sacked for his radical stance on free trade, incompatible with the Whig views of the proprietors; Weir wished Whig parliamentary candidates to pledge immediate repeal of the Corn Laws.[4][5] Weir had also upset the shareholders of the paper by printing material critical of leading Whigs including the Lord Advocate, Andrew Rutherfurd.[6]

At the time of the 1847 United Kingdom general election, Charles Mackay disagreed with the paper's management on the choice of local Liberal candidate, and left the position of editor.[7] Although the newspaper had been recently enlarged, it was still making a loss and it was decided to wind it up on 29 November 1847.[6]

Editors

Notes
  1. William Lloyd Garrison (1973). The letters of William Lloyd Garrison: No union with slaveholders, 1841-1849. III. Harvard University Press. p. 448 note 2. ISBN 978-0-674-52662-4.
  2. William Tait; Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone (1836). Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. W. Tait. p. 194.
  3. Kenneth J. Cameron, William Weir and the Origins of the 'Manchester League' in Scotland, 1833-39, The Scottish Historical Review Vol. 58, No. 165, Part 1 (Apr., 1979), pp. 70-91. Published by: Edinburgh University Press. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25529320
  4. Cameron, Kenneth J. "Weir, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28975. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. Paul A. Pickering; Alex Tyrell (2000). The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-7185-0218-8.
  6. "MS 185 Glasgow Argus". Archive Services Online Catalogue. University of Dundee. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  7. Men of the Time: Biographical Sketches of Eminent Living Characters Also Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Women of the Time. Kent & Company. 1857. p. 496.
  8. Viera, Carroll. "Hunt, Thornton Leigh". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14210. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. Calder, Angus. "Mackay, Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17555. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  10. Spencer Timothy Hall (1870). Morning studies and evening pastimes. p. 191.
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