At that point, it was already an influential Whig newspaper.
Northern Whig newspaper is founded in Belfast.
The Journal had been a staunchly Whig newspaper, which coincided with Blaine's and Stevens's political opinions.
When he had captured his party's presidential nomination, the country's leading Whig newspaper sneered in derision.
In 1836, he purchased a Whig newspaper, the Columbia Patriot, which he edited for several years.
One Whig newspaper announces, "We take nothing by conquest. . . . Thank God."
(The family also owned The Northern Whig newspaper).
In that year he also became editor of the National Aegis, a Whig newspaper with which he would remain associated for many years.
The Register was originally a Whig newspaper and was strongly anti-slavery.
Whig newspapers tried to discredit Hébert by starting rumors of his allegiance with the Know Nothings.