Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

The establishment of a FREE PRESS in any government, more especially democracies, says a writer in the Virginia Gazette, is the best mode of insuring its privileges. The liberty of the press may be considered as an invincible bulwark to the rights of a free state, and a palladium of the liberties of mankind. So far has it proved a blessing to society--so far has it demonstrated itself a check upon the tools of office--that it ever has attracted the eye of jealousy, and made the heart of tyranny to palpitate with horror. A free and impartial press will be deemed by every informed American as the centinel to his rights, his liberties and his honor--that will give the watchword at the approach of danger, and challenge every alarming evil, while yet at a distance.