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subscription price ^31, not a single subscriber complain-
ed or expressed a wish to have his name withdrawn.
Several names, on the contrary, were added to the cir-
culation lists and many paid not only the required
half year's price in advance, but the entire year's.32

Emergence of a Federalist Organ. - Washington's
second administration was now growing, to a close, and
the American party system as it exists today was
emerging. National issues on which the United States
was divided were relations with England and Prance,
and Alexander Hamilton's financial system. Hamilton
had successfully established national credit, and
Incidentally had solidified the support of the mer-
cantile class behind his party, the Federalist.³³

The Federal Intelligencer, like most daily news-
papers, had apparently been founded chiefly for the
merchants; and from the facts that it and its prede-
cessor, tho Repository, had been the only dailies in
Baltimore for several years (the Maryland Journal be-
came a daily in 1795) and that it had gained a large
circulation and undoubtedly numbered among its readers
many successful merchants, there is small wonder that

Brown issued at the end of 1795 a statement of his

31 Ibid December 29, 1794.

32 Ibid January 1, 1795.

33 Mott, F. L. American journalism. p. 119-121