Established on March 7, 1823, the was launched nearly one year after the appearance of the city’s first newspaper, the . Begun by two Kentuckians, and , the operated out of a house on Washington Street owned by Gregg.
On October 19, 1824, Gregg sold his interest in the newspaper to , who had established the in Madison, Indiana, before becoming the state printer in Corydon in 1823. In the fall of 1824, Douglass moved to the new state capital, Indianapolis, and purchased an interest in the . Douglass and Maguire, who would later serve, respectively, as a state representative and Indiana auditor, operated the newspaper until January 11, 1825, when it was renamed the .
The strongly opposed Democratic candidate Andrew Jackson’s campaign for the White House in the 1824 presidential election, which saw Jackson competing for the presidency with John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William Crawford (Maguire and Clay were friends). The newspaper continued its opposition to Jackson and his followers after the election.
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