Editing Albany, Georgia (section)

===Carey Wentworth Styles===
After the war, [[Carey Wentworth Styles]] moved to Albany and founded the newspaper ''Albany News''. In the early years following the war, Styles, like Tift, took great exception to the [[Radical Reconstruction]] program then in force, and advocated for a more moderate response based on his interpretation of Georgia's rights under the [[Constitution of the United States|Constitution]].<ref name="Davis2012">{{cite book|author=Jefferson Davis|title=The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1871-1879|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKq2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA37|date=March 12, 2012|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-3907-3|pages=37–38}}</ref>  Styles backed "constitutional reconstruction" advanced by [[Benjamin H. Hill]] and sought support for the idea from the national [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic party]].<ref name="Davis2012" /><ref name="Nixon">{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=19556720&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjM5NzkxNTk5MSwiaWF0IjoxNTU0NjA4NTYyLCJleHAiOjE1NTQ2OTQ5NjJ9.g8sYKoPF93l05M2pRKS_i3DlmYYd_T8ANWxQsr4movU|title=Constitution's Founder Fought for Georgia with Pen and Sword|publisher=The Atlanta Constitution|author=Raymond B. Nixon|date=June 17, 1945|access-date=April 7, 2019}}</ref> While on a trip to [[Atlanta, Georgia|Atlanta]] in May 1868, to meet with Democratic party leaders, Styles took measure of the contemporary Atlanta newspapers, and found them lacking.<ref name="AJC">{{cite web|url=https://www.ajc.com/about/ajc-history/|title=AJC History: The Story of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution|publisher=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|date=2019|access-date=April 7, 2019|archive-date=April 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401125441/https://www.ajc.com/about/ajc-history/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Styles believed them to be little more than organs for the [[Radical Republican]] reconstruction agenda.<ref name="chron_amer">{{cite web |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85035943/ |title=About The Constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1868–1869 |work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=January 18, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Fishwrapper">{{cite web |title=The Atlanta Constitution |url=https://blog.newspapers.com/the-atlanta-constitution/ |website=Fishwrap |access-date=June 16, 2018 |date=June 16, 2018}}</ref> He resolved to bring a paper aligned with the Democratic party viewpoint to the Atlanta market, one supporting his constitutional reconstruction ideals.<ref name="Nixon" /><ref name="AJC" /><ref name="chron_amer" /><ref name="Fishwrapper" /> Styles moved from Albany to Atlanta, and on May 9 he announced that he had obtained the necessary financial backing to purchase the ''Daily Opinion''.<ref name="Oakland">{{cite web|url=https://oaklandcemetery.com/the-founders-of-the-atlanta-constitution-at-oakland-cemetery/|title=The Founders of the Atlanta Constitution at Oakland Cemetery|publisher=Historic Oakland Cemetery Foundation|date=June 18, 2018|access-date=April 8, 2019}}</ref>

On June 16, 1868, the ''new Democratic daily'' (as he described it) printed its first edition, under the name ''The Constitution''.<ref name="AJC" /> Styles' tenure at the ''[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|Atlanta Constitution]]'' would be brief. Unable to pay for his portion of the purchase, when the sale of his ''Albany News'' fell through, Styles was forced to surrender his interest in the paper to his joint venture partners. Styles returned to Albany as editor of the ''News''. In 1872, he was elected to the [[Georgia Senate]], representing Augusta and surrounding communities, in an ironic turn of events, having killed a member of the [[Georgia House of Representatives]] in his earlier years.<ref name="Davis2012" /><ref name="Nixon" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/styles231/|title=Carey Wentworth Styles papers, 1860-1945|date=October 5, 2007|publisher=Emory University - Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library|access-date=April 8, 2019}}</ref> After his legislative service, Styles sold the Albany newspaper in 1876 and returned to Atlanta.