Sidney Edwards Morse

Sidney Edwards Morse (7 February 1794 Charlestown, Massachusetts – 24 December 1871 New York City) was an American inventor, geographer and journalist.

Meanwhile, Morse became a contributor to the Columbian Centinel of Boston, writing a series of articles that illustrated the danger to the American Union from an undue multiplication of new states in the south, and showing that it would give to a sectional minority the control of the government.

These led to his being invited by Jeremiah Evarts and others to found a weekly religious newspaper, which Morse named Boston Recorder.

Morse continued as sole editor and proprietor of this journal for more than a year, raising its circulation until that of only two Boston papers exceeded it.

It is bitterly opposed to all interference with American slavery, to abolitionism of whatever shade, and to all attempts to limit or restrain the power of the slaveholders.