Original 1868 ☆ TRI-WEEKLY State Gazette ☆ Newspaper VOL 1 No 101 ☆ Austin Texas

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Original 1868 ☆ TRI-WEEKLY State Gazette ☆ Newspaper VOL 1 No 101 ☆ Austin Texas
An original copy of the TRI-WEEKLY State Gazette ☆ published by Walker & Lane, Austin, Texas on Monday morning. July 20, 1868
Austin, Texas business advertisements
Shooting of Judge Cooley of
Fredericksburg; The Democratic Party Platform of July 1868
4 page bifold newsprint
In good antiquarian condition – some loss at half-fold margin
Dimensions (Half-Folded):  13″W x 21″H
The Texas State Gazette
was one of the most influential newspapers in Texas from the pre-Civil War era until Reconstruction. The paper was founded as the Tri-Weekly State Gazette and first published in Austin by William H. Cushney on August 25, 1849. The paper was known for its strong states’-rights positions and as a voice of the state Democratic Party, a reputation it established during political battles with Sam Houston in the turbulent times before secession. John F. Marshall purchased the Gazette in 1854 and became its best-known editor. He devoted most of his editorials to politics, sectionalism, and support of slavery. Marshall aimed his most candid remarks against Sam Houston, and his crusade against Houston probably influenced the outcome of the gubernatorial election of 1857. Houston suffered the only election loss of his life in his defeat by Democratic nominee Hardin R. Runnels. Marshall attributed Houston’s 1859 comeback to a conspiracy among postmasters who, he claimed, withheld copies of the Gazette until after the 1859 election. But Marshall’s strident advocacy of reopening the slave trade probably gave Houston the victory by splintering the Democratic Party.