Masthead of the Democratic Enquirer (1848)

ID: 706 ~ Source: Democratic Enquirer (6 April 1848) Historic Portsmouth Newspaper Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Date: 1848

This file appears in: James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment: Author of Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery Edited Newspaper on Portsmouth's Market Street

Masthead of the Democratic Enquirer of Portsmouth, Ohio (1848), which listed Edward W. Jordan and James M. Ashley as editors.

This file appears in: James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment: Author of Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery Edited Newspaper on Portsmouth's Market Street

James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment: Author of Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery Edited Newspaper on Portsmouth's Market Street

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Before there was the Washington Hotel at Second and Market Streets, the residents of Portsmouth knew this as Micklethwaite Corner. It was on this block that James Ashley, the author of the Thirteenth…