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| type = [[Daily newspaper]]
| founder = John Douglass & Douglass Maguire
| political = [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
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The '''''Indianapolis Journal''''' was a newspaper published in [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]], during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The paper published daily editions every evening except on Sundays, when it published a morning edition.
On March 7, 1823, Harvey Gregg and Douglas Maguire published the first issue of the '''''Western Censor & Emigrants' Guide''''', a year after the city's first newspaper, the ''Indianapolis Gazette'', was established. On October 19, 1824, Gregg sold his interest in the paper to John Douglass. Douglass and Maquire published the ''Western Censor'' until renaming it as the '''''Indiana Journal''''' on January 11, 1825, and expanded and enlarged the publication.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boomhower |first=Ray |date=2021-03-09 |title=Western Censor &
From the outset the paper advocated for government-sponsored internal improvements and protective tariffs that would aid Indiana’s agricultural economy. These positions led the ''Journal'' to align with the [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]] beginning in the mid-1830s. Purchased in 1845 by [[John D. Defrees]], and operated by him for nearly a decade, the paper was the first in Indianapolis to install a steam driven printing press. Under his leadership, the paper became Indianapolis's first permanent daily, the '''''Daily Indiana State Journal
Berry R. Sulgrove, who had joined the ''Journal'' in 1854 as editor, acquired controlling interest in the paper a few years later and transitioned the paper from the Whig to the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] camp. During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Sulgrove published strong pro-[[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] columns supporting the policies of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] and of [[Governor of Indiana|Indiana governor]] [[Oliver P. Morton]]. During the war, the ''Journal''{{'}}s daily circulation reached 6,000; while that of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] and [[Copperhead (politics)|Copperhead]]-aligned ''[[Indianapolis Sentinel]]'' saw a decline in its daily readership due to interference and shutdowns enforced by Morton.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dark lanterns: secret political societies, conspiracies, and treason trials in the Civil War|author=Klement, Frank L.|page=232|isbn=0-8071-1567-3|year=1984|publisher=LSU Press}}</ref>
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