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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Rapp, Wilhelm |
| Title, Analytic | The Baltimore Riots of 1861: A Letter of Wilhelm Rapp |
| Journal Title | The Newberry Library Bulletin |
| Date of Publication | May 1952 |
| Volume ID | Second series |
| Issue ID | 2 |
| Location in Work | 274-283, ill. |
| Abstract | As editor of the Baltimore Wecker, Rapp's anti-secessionist and anti-slavery views made him the target of mob violence. In this letter to his father dated 30 June 1861, written from Chicago, Rapp describes his narrow escape from riots in Baltimore. |
| Notes | Translated and Annotated by Fritz Caspari. "Note: The following letter of Wilhelm Rapp, long-time editor of the Chicago German-language newspaper Illinois Staats-Zeitung, has been translated from a typewritten copy presented to the Newberry Library by Mr. William Rapp Kemper of Evanston, Illinois, grandson of the author. Wilhelm Rapp was born in 1827 in the state of Wuerttemberg in Germany. While studying theology at the University of Tuebingen he became involved in the Revolution of 1848, and after its failure sought refuge in Switzerland. On his return he was imprisoned for one year, tried for high treason, and finally acquitted. In 1852, he emigrated to America. After some years of editorial work with the Cincinnati Turn-Zeitung, Rapp in 1857 became editor of the Baltimore Wecker, a German-language newspaper of strong Republican sympathies. Like many of his fellow Forty-Eighters, Rapp fought passionately against slavery and Know-Nothingism. The lively experiences described in this letter [to his father]. . . prompted Rapp to come to Chicago and join the Illinois Staats-Zeitung. In 1891 he became its editor-in-chief, succeeding Hermann Raster, some of whose letters and private papers are also at the Newberry Library and have been described in the Bulletin of December, 1945 (I, 3). Wilhelm Rapp continued as the editorial head of the Staats-Zeitung until his death in 1907. -- F.C." |
| Call Number | MKI P2011-20 |
| MKI Terms | Rapp, Wilhlem, 1828-1907/ German Americans -- Maryland/ Baltimore (Md.)/ Forty-eighters/ 19th century/ Slavery/ Civil War, 1861-1865 -- German Americans/ Newspapers, German-American |