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1803Weekly Messenger, Washington
1804Republican Register, Shelbyville
1804The Mirror, Danville
1805The Informant, Danville
1806Republican Auxiliary, Washington
1806Western World, Frankfort
1806The Impartial Review, Bardstown
1806The Mirror, Russellville
1808The Lamp, Lincoln County
1808Argus of Western America, Frankfort
1808Louisville Gazette, Louisville
1808The Reporter, Lexington
1808Western Citizen, Paris
1809Farmer's Friend, Russellville
1809Political Theater, Lancaster
1809The Dove, Washington
1809The Globe, Richmond
1810The Examiner, Lancaster
1810American Republic, Frankfort
1810The Luminary, Richmond
1811American Statesman, Lexington
1811Western Courier, Louisville
1811Bardstown Repository, Bardstown
1811The Telegraph, Georgetown

The failure of the Federal government in 1797 to back up the ambitions of Kentucky led the powerful men of the state, through their organ, the Gazette, the only paper thus far published in the state, to attack the administration fiercely, and even General Washington himself. Writers then declared that, if the Federal government did not take Louisiana and put an end to the intolerable situation, they, themselves, would make the conquest of Louisiana. It was in this way that the Federalists, by their indifference to the demands of the west, lost control over a large section of the country.^[1]

Joseph H. Daveiss, District Attorney, in his loyalty to the Union, attempted to arouse the community when he

1. Roosevelt, Winning of the West, iv, 2