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HISTORY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM
D. W. Anthony and united with The Texas Gazette and Brazoria Commercial Advertiser, a paper started in 1830 by Mr. Anthony at Brazoria. The union was called The Constitutional Advocate and The Texas Public Advertiser and its first issue appeared on August 30, 1832. One year later Anthony died of the cholera in Brazoria. In July, 1834, F. C. Gray and A. J. Harris began in Brazoria the publication of The Texas Republican, a paper which continued until the invasion of Santa Anna in 1836. Of The Advocate of the Peoples' Rights, another paper started in Brazoria in 1834 by Oliver H. Allen, little is known, and not much more about The Texian Advocate and Immigrants' Guide, which appeared spasmodically during 1835–36 in Nacogdoches.
