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was printed by his son, Samuel J. Brown, called the Liberty- 

 Hall. It is now the Gazette and Liberty Hall, edited by 

 Charles Hammond, Esquire. It is the oldest and largest news- 

 paper establishment in the state. It is published daily, tri- 

 weekly and weekly. 



To trace the rise of each newspaper establishment in every 

 town of any importance in the State, would be needless; but 

 we content ourselves with a few remarks. At Columbus the 

 seat of Government, Philo H. Olmsted, publi5.hed the " Wes- 

 tern Intelligencer," commenced in March, 1813. Without 

 changing its owner, it became the "Columbus Gazette" in 

 1818, and is now the "Ohio State Journal," published by 

 Scott & Wright. There had been before this time two news- 

 papers established in Ghillicothe, where the ancestor of the 

 poet Wyllis, and Joseph S. Collins, now of Washington city, 

 published a paper, under the old Territorial Government. 



All the first papers printed in Ohio were small ones, and 

 badly printed. The most of the presses and types first used in 

 Ohio, were old cast off ones, in the east, with a few new job 

 types to each establishment. The change within the last 

 twenty years, in all respects, as it regards the art of Printing 

 in this state, is highly gratifying to our state pride. We have 

 now, at least, one hundred newspapers, published weekly, in 

 the state. Many of them are as large as any in the east — 

 nine of them are daily ones — several twice a week; — and we 

 have twenty establishments for printing books, in which they 

 are printed handsomely, as well as bound well. Our printing 

 presses are made in Ohio, and the types are cast here. Our 

 papers are not only handsomely printed on good paper, which 

 is also made in the state, but they are edited very ably, espe- 

 cially when the interests of Ohio are endangered from any 

 quarter. On all such occasions, those who stand on the watch- 

 towers of liberty will ably do their duty to their fellow-citizens 

 of Ohio. 



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