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The ''Buffalo Demokrat'' was a daily
German language German (, ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western Europe, Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and Official language, official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switze ...
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Buffalo, New York Buffalo is a Administrative divisions of New York (state), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York and county seat of Erie County, New York, Erie County. It lies in Western New York at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of ...
published from 1848 until 1918. The ''Demokrat'' was founded as the ''Freie Demokrat'' but changed its name in 1850, when it came under new ownership. Initially the newspaper was an ardent supporter of the
Free soil The Free Soil Party, also called the Free Democratic Party or the Free Democracy, was a political party in the United States from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was focused on opposing the expansion of slav ...
movement, and was affiliated with the party, though later became an organ for the Democratic Party.“Buffalo, Rochester, Utica.” ''The Progress of the Empire State: a Work Devoted to the Historical, Financial, Industrial, and Literary Development of New York'', by Charles A. Conant and J. N. Larned, vol. 3, The Progress of the Empire State Company, 1913, pp. 202–203. Newly immigrated Forty-Eighter
Hermann Raster Hermann Raster (May 6, 1827 – July 24, 1891) was an American editor, abolitionist, writer, and anti-temperance political boss who served as chief editor and part-owner of the '' Illinois Staats-Zeitung'', a widely circulated newspaper in the ...
became editor of the paper in 1851, but left soon after obtaining the post for another editorial job at the '' New-Yorker Abend-Zeitung''. The newspaper ceased publication in 1918.


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List of German-language newspapers published in the United States In the period from the 1830s until the First World War, dozens of German-language newspapers were published in the United States. Although the first German immigrants had arrived by 1700, most German-language newspapers flourished during the era ...


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