Please throughly study the photographs carefully for a better detailed visual description of the newspaper. Some tattering of the edges.

Splits/closed splits. Use zoom in to focus on the edges and details. Notice I re-enforced a couple of splits circled in red. Use zoom in to see/read some of the articles/topics of the paper. Some stains and fading (natural patina for antique paper ephemera).

Main theme of this issue is the Catholic influence on the U.S. school doctrines as depicted in the lithograph(s) by renowned artist Thomas Nast titled “No Church Need Apply” and “The American River Ganges”

This cartoon, which originally occupied an entire page of the magazine, shows a caricature of Pope Pius IX (1792–1878) carrying a hatbox full of "Hats Caps and Gowns From Rome" and bundles of documents bearing legends like "The Ecclesiastical Power is Superior to the Civil" and "I Am Infallible, Therefore Must Rule." The figure's mitre combines "School," "State," and "Church" in a single structure—an implicit threat to American liberties. A figure dubbed Little Jonathan, standing at the door of a "Common Public School," says that "Miss Columbia'—Columbia being a female figure symbolizing the United States, almost entirely replaced today by the Uncle Sam image that was first popularized by Nast himself—'will not try your teaching, as it has proved to be so injurious in Dame Europa's school, that our adopted children who left her don't care to learn under that system again." "Oh, you Godless, infidel vipers," replies the Pope, "I'll be revenged on you, for I keep the keys of Heaven!"

“The American River Ganges” was a full-page editorial cartoon drawn by Thomas Nast and published in the September 30, 1871, issue of Harper’s Weekly and republished in the magazine in 1875. The cartoon was accompanied by an essay written by Eugene Lawrence. Lawrence, a frequent contributor to the magazine, was a nativist who blamed Catholics for what he saw as the demise of the public school system. He argued that “to destroy our free schools, and perhaps our free institutions has been for many years the constant aim of the extreme section of the Romish Church.” The essay attacks Jesuits and Irish Catholics, who, Lawrence argues, govern New York because of an unholy alliance between Tammany Hall, the political society run by the politician William “Boss” Tweed, and Irish Catholic immigrants, who looked to Tammany Hall for patronage— and who often received it by pledging to vote for the Democratic political candidates the society supported.

Much more historical information and lithographs are contained. It also comes with its supplement and the theme is Bavarian Salt Mines.

This comes from the collection of a Mr. Louis A. Martin who was born in the year of 1835 in Switzerland. Mr. Martin was a watchmaker by trade and eventually resided in Hoboken New Jersey with his wife and two sons. Mr. Martin managed to amass a large collection of newspapers and other American and foreign paper ephemera. Discovered decades ago in the backyard shed of the brownstone he lived in and kept stored until now. In his collection were many “clippings” of articles and illustrations and other clippings of news articles as well as single pages of Puck Magazine, The Judge Magazine and a collection of Harper’s Weekly as well as other American and foreign paper ephemera.

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