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V. It shall be a vehicle for the debates and
laws of Congress of the United States, a
large and select train of foreign and
domestic intelligence, with extracts from
prices current, political essays, miscel-
lanies, anecdotes, &c.

VI. The press shall be open and uninfluenced for
the reception of anything that may tend to
the welfare of this state, or of the United
States.¹³

To make his paper more useful to the merchants,
Graham announced that it was his intention to publish
the sailing of vessels some days prior to their de-
parture, with information as to what ports they were
bound for, and where letters could be received for
each. For that purpose he solicited the information
from gentlemen concerned in shipping.¹⁴

Baltimore's veteran printer, William Goddard, had
hailed the coming of the new paper with a squib, in
which he alluded to Graham as

a huge leviathan-printer from Barrataria, who
intends publishing, for the entertainment of
this town, another Palladium, every day of the
week, and twice on Sunday.¹⁵

He stated that the editors of the Maryland Journal,

as they now publish two papers per week, they can
issue four more, on lower terms than, they be-
lieve, any other person will perform such services.
They shall judge it necessary to make the experi-
ment, under favour of the public, should the
above alarming intelligence prove authentic, as
the fate of hapless Jonas would, indeed, prove a

13 Ibid. October 24, 1791.

14 Ibid. October 29, 1791.

15 Maryland journal, August 30, 1791.