The unsuccessful Crawford was appointed as Secretary of War, and granted Elliot lucrative printing contracts, allowing funding for its reissue as a daily publication titled the City of Washington Gazette.

In 1826, Elliot sold the paper to John Silva Meehan, acting on behalf of a coalition of Andrew Jackson supporters seeking a friendly newspaper in Washington.

The Telegraph saw wide circulation both in Washington and across the United States, serving as a key component of the nationwide network of pro-Jackson papers.

[1] During the 1816 United States presidential election the paper threw its support behind Georgia senator William H. Crawford's campaign for the Democratic-Republican nomination.

Crawford awarded Elliot lucrative printing contracts in reward for his campaign support, giving him the funds to switch his paper to a daily publication, renaming it the City of Washington Gazette.

Advertisements for local schools, books, hotels, boardinghouses, and merchants were often included, as were schedules and routes for stagecoach and steamboat lines.

Also included on the third page were ship arrival and departures, the prices of various agricultural products, marriages, obituaries, births, and notices for local events.

The paper was strongly opposed to the election of President Adams and the appointment of Secretary of State Henry Clay, declaring it in violation of "the most sacred principles of the Constitution", and adopting the motto "Power is always stealing from the many to the few".

Deaths of other important political figures were simply memorialized by the addition of black borders to columns, without expansive eulogies in the text.

[16] Although Meehan was recognized for his strong advocacy against John Quincy Adams through the Telegraph, the ownership of the paper grew uncomfortable with his perceived inability to mount an effective response against the administration.

Eaton, alongside ten members of Congress (including James K. Polk), pooled a significant amount of funds to allow Green to assume leadership of the paper.

[23] The Telegraph was particularly vital to nationwide pro-Jackson exchange networks, functioning as a "national bulletin board" for political intelligence, reprinting columns from a massive pool of other papers.

[25] He was particularity vehement in his attacks on Henry Clay, describing him as an embezzler and traitor, writing in the Telegraph that his "days were spent in a gambling house, and his nights in a brothel", and that his electoral defeat would leave him a destitute outcast.

In response to claims that Rachel Jackson was a bigamist and adulteress, he began to spread rumors that the President and Louisa Adams had engaged in premarital sex.

The National Journal described the Telegraph as transitioned from a pro-Jackson to a pro-Calhoun paper, writing that it "almost exclusively devotes its columns to the Vice-President".

After Sparhawk continued publishing attacks on the paper, Green allegedly "pulled his hair and gouged his eyes" while in the offices of the Senate Committee on Claims.

The National Journal alleged in 1828 that eight different congressmen — including members from Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio — were using their franking privileges to circulate the Telegraph.

[36] Joseph Gales and William W. Seaton, editors of the pro-Adams National Intelligencer, were removed from their role as Senate printers in March 1837, and Jacksonian politicians instead commissioned Green for the position, granting him an additional source of funding for the Telegraph.

He would later write that Green "had a craving appetite for private slander, which spared neither age, nor sex, nor character, and which led him to publish the meanest libels upon respectable individuals".

After accepting loans from various banks and Jacksonian politicians, Green was able to complete the buy-out and resume his role as sole editor by late October.

During the 1832 campaign, Green revived the edition as the Extra Telegraph, instead offering the paper as a series of 13 issues, each bundled as ten copies.

The Telegraph consistently bickered with anti-Jacksonian papers, asserting Jackson's good health in the face of repeated claims of his impending death from the opposition.

[46] Although Green declined to make any public statements against the Second Bank of the United States during the campaign, he began to launch attacks and criticisms of the institution following the election.

[51] Congressman James Blair, angered by Green's insistence on describing the anti-nullifiers as "tories", assaulted him with a large club on Christmas Eve, 1832, breaking his arm and severely wounding his leg.

[52] The Telegraph began to take an enthusiastically pro-slavery position, leading to its description as "demented upon the subject of slavery" by the Phenix Gazette.

An adjacent stereotype foundry produced duplicate printing plates to replace those worn down by press machinery, while a bindery bound over a dozen periodicals published by the firm.

The union filed a call for strike action and a public denouncement on Green, prompting him to again reject the proposal on October 15, ending the two-month walkout.

[56][57] Jackson doubled the subscription price of the Country Telegraph in 1834, although subscribers who paid in advance additionally received the Register of Debates, a daily account of congressional proceedings.

[58] The undersigned is compelled by other indispensable engagements to withdraw from the publication of the United States Telegraph the subscribers to which will hereafter receive in its stead 'The Reformer', a new paper published in this city by Messrs. William W. Moore and Co. and edited by Richard K. Cralle, Esq.

Green's increasing focus on business interests prompted him to first entrust management of the paper to assistant editor Edward R. Gibson for several months in late 1835 and early 1836.