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religious, moral, or literary articles, and to poetry
and anecdote; a "correct list" of marriages and deaths
would be included; not more than a page and a half of
any one issue would te given over to advertisements;
if the paper should receive more than could be accom-
modated in the remaining space, a supplement would be
issued. The editor would te thankful for original
contributions; and he recommenced his paper especially
to "the fair sex" who "merit the highest attentions,
and the greatest endeavours shall te used to gratify
the delicacy of their fancy."⁹⁹

Up to this time there had been little evidence of
political rivalry in the Baltimore newspapers. The
Maryland Journal, it is true, printed editorials by
Pechin which were, politically, too radical for Ed-
wards' taste.¹⁰⁰ Edwards must have had a leaning to-
wards Republicanism; he was an officer in the
militia company Sans Culottes, and that militia company
met often with the Baltimore Republican Society ^l0l,
formed in 1794¹⁰²; tut the conduct of his Maryland
journal adhered closely to the motto of Edwards's
Baltimore Pally Advertiser of 1793 and 1794; "Open

to all parties but influenced Ly none." Pechin's first

99 Federal gazette. September 6, 1797.

100 Baltimore American. Supplement, Au/just 20,1873.

101 Link, E. P., op. cit. p. 182.

102 Ibid. p. 14.