Knoxville Whig

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The Knoxville Whig was a Knoxville, Tennessee paper begun by William G. Brownlow.

It was a paper defined by its fierce Protestant religiosity and conservative political leanings as well as its anit-immigration, especially anti Catholic, brand of American nativism. Throughout the 1850s, the paper sought a middle ground between the abolitionists of the North and dis-unionists of the lower South. Despite this preference for Unionism, the paper was nonetheless blatantly racist and pro-slavery.

The paper was later named the Knoxville Journal.

 

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