[Your help needed to figure out the artist who designed the first masthead for Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly. On the bottom left, the name looks like Bonwill C & L. There was an artist for Frank Leslie’s newspaper named C. E. H. Bonwill. Could he be the artist?]
The Weekly Is Born
The upcoming publication of the very first issue of Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly was announced on page two of the May 11, 1870 issue of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
BUSINESS NOTICES.
WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY,
UPWARD AND ONWARD.
SATURDAY, May 14th, 1870, will appear a new journal primarily devoted to the vital interests of the people. It will support
VICTORIA C. WOODHULL,
for President of the United States with its whole strength; otherwise it will be perfectly untram[m]eled, and will advocate
SUFFRAGE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX.
The harmonious co-operation of labor and capital.
Liberal National Education.
The widest action of the citizen compatible with the dignity of the State.
Finance and Revenue Laws to support the State, but not at the expense or for the gain of any special branches of industry.
Such reform in the system of Internal Improvements as shall make them public benefits, instead of corporate franchises.
The duty to humanity in the State in its treatment of the indigent, the helpless, and the criminal.
A system of office holding which will secure PURITY, HONESTY and EFFICIENCY in all public servants.
Finally
WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY,
will take the highest ground in the diffusion of
RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY, AND SCIENCE,
in the conviction that in their harmonious union lies the true basis of all human progress.
WOODHULL & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY
affirms that all Parties, Isms, and Creeds devoted to settled lines of policy have become unworthy the confidence of this enlightened age; while Progress is the only principle worthy a live, intelligent and independent journal.
Publishing office,
Barnes’ Building,
No. 21 Park Row, N. Y.
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