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| | CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO |
 | | The Democracy of Crawford were anxious to have an organ at Bucyrus, and the publishers of the Ohio Statesman, at Columbus, recommended Thomas J. Orr and.John White as two printers who could conduct a paper to suit the party. |
 | | Considering the present partisan meaning attached to the words Democratic and Republican, it appeals strange that in 1840, the organ of Crawford County Democracy should he named the Democratic Republican, while the Whig paper opposed to the Demmocracy, should be called the Bucyrus Democrat. |
 | | Liberal subscriptions were made to the stock of this company by the citizens of Crawford County, and the County Commissioners, after a vote by the people, which determined their authority to act, took in the name of the county, $100,000 of the stock. |
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