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Benjamin Franklin Bache (August 12, 1769 – September 10, 1798) was an American journalist, printer and publisher. He founded the Philadelphia Aurora, a newspaper that supported Jeffersonian philosophy.
Benjamin Franklin Bache was the printer and publisher of the Philadelphia Aurora, a leading Democratic-Republican newspaper in the 1790s. During his short life, Bache became a vocal critic of the early Federalist Party and George Washington’s administration.
1 de ene. de 2009 · Benjamin Franklin Bache (1769–1798), the controversial editor of the Philadelphia newspaper the American Aurora, was one of the persons arrested under the Sedition Act of 1798.
Benjamin Franklin Bache, born on August 12, 1769, carried the legacy of one of America's most iconic statesmen, being the direct grandson of the illustrious Benjamin Franklin. Born to Sarah Franklin Bache and Richard Bache, he was thrust into a lineage of intellectual prominence and civic duty.
Republicanism believed in an agrarian nation for the maintenance of wealth, virtue, and growth; industry corrupted the citizenry and reduced workers to the whim of the factory-owner. Bache even pointed out Benjamin Franklin’s disgust of the working conditions at factories in England.
7 de jun. de 2017 · Benjamin Franklin Bache was the founder and editor of the Aurora. Courtesy of American Philosophical Society, Bache Papers, Castle Collection. As founder of the Aurora newspaper, Benjamin Bache was a vocal opponent of the Washington and Adams administrations, and outspoken supporter of Jefferson.
The best study of Bache, James Tagg, Benjamin Franklin Bache and the Philadelphia Aurora (Philadelphia, 1991), 100-101, 125-37, 131, 185, discusses Bache's publishing ventures and printing of congressional debates. Bache sold 15,000 copies of Paine's Age of Reason in Philadelphia in 1796.
