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5979. NEWSPAPERS, Support of.—

Bache's paper and also Carey's totter for
want of subscriptions. We should really
exert ourselves to procure them, for if these
papers fall, republicanism will be entirely
browbeaten. [363]
To James Madison. Washington ed. iv, 237. Ford ed., vii, 245.
(Pa., 1798)

See Callender and Duane.

 
[363]

Of the two hundred newspapers then (1800) in the
United States all but about twenty were enlisted by
preference or patronage on the Federal side.—Alexander
H. Stephen's History of the United States, p. 386.