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INTRODUCTION. 
which is nearly equidistant from the northern and southern boundaries of the 
state, were then organs of the north; and there were four newspapers printed in 
the region west of Onondaga, where now more are published than in 1810 
supplied the whole state. 
The number of newspapers now published within this state is upwards of 
three hundred, being an hundred times more than were printed in the state at 
the close of the revolution, and eight times the number printed in the United 
States at that period. The more important publications are, in the city of New- 
York, the Courier and Enquirer, by James Watson Webb; the Journal of Com¬ 
merce, by Hale and Halleck; the New-York Express, by Brooks and Town¬ 
send; the Standard, by John I. Mumford; and the New-Era, by Jared W. Bell; 
morning papers: the Commercial Advertiser, by William L. Stone; the Even¬ 
ing Post, by William C. Bryant; and the American, by Charles King; evening 
papers, published upon the old system for regular subscribers: the New-York 
Tribune, by Horace Greely; the Sun, by Moses Y. Beach; and the Plebeian, 
by Levi D. Slamm, published upon the new plan of selling indiscriminately for 
cash: in the city of Albany, the Albany Daily Advertiser, formerly the Albany 
Gazette; the Albany Argus, by Edwin Croswell; and the Albany Evening 
Journal, by Thurlow Weed: in the city of Troy, the Troy Daily Whig and 
Troy Budget: in the city of Utica, the Oneida Observer and the Oneida Whig : 
in the city of Rochester, the Rochester Democrat and Rochester Daily Adver¬ 
tiser ; and in the city of Buffalo, the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser and the 
Mercantile Courier. 
There is scarcely more resemblance between the press as it now exists, and 
that institution as it was at the close of the revolution, than between the present 
aspect of our inland regions and the forest garb they wore while inhabited only 
by the Iroquois. Then the art, employed chiefly in printing the colonial statutes, 
almanacks, occasional sermons, and volumes of devotional psalmody, and publish¬ 
ing a semi-weekly record of events, was only auxiliary, in the hands of its 
managers, to the more important object of selling books, pamphlets, stationery, 
