M'arthur Democrat (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio)
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428 issues from 1855 to 1865, published in Mcarthur, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
The M’arthur Democrat was established in Logan, Ohio, as the Hocking Valley Republican in 1848. When Vinton County was formed two years later in 1850, editors J.A. Brown and Luther S. Bort moved their plant to McArthur, the seat of Vinton County, and changed the name of the paper to the Vinton County Republican. Its first issue was published on April 13, 1850, just two days before the county held its first elections. The paper supported Whig interests until 1852 when it was purchased by the Democratic Joint Stock Company and changed both its name and politics to become the Vinton County Flag which served as the organ of the Democratic Party. In 1853, the paper was purchased by Edward A. Bratton who renamed it the M’arthur Democrat.
The Democrat changed hands and mottos several more times over the decade, reflecting both financial struggles and changes in political fortune. In 1853, the paper declared that “The Spirit of the Age is Democracy,” and, the next year, in 1854, the paper’s motto changed to “No North, No South, No East, No West, Under the Constitution; But a Sacred Maintenance of that Instrument and True Devotion to Our Common Country.” The paper’s motto changed again in 1855 to read “Equal and Exact Justice to All Men of Whatever State, Religious or Political.” Alexander Pearce and John T. Spence published the Democrat from 1856 until 1860, when ownership of the paper returned to the Bratton family with Ruth C. Bratton acting as publisher and Edward A. as editor.…
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- News
- Published in
- Mcarthur, Ohio, United States
- Language
- English
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- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
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