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cated at the junction of Griff en and Swan streets, Tompkinsville ; 

 but it was printed at No. 4 Chambers Street, New York City. 



Editor Baldwin was a very enterprising man. Beside running 

 two newspapers he kept the Quarantine Hotel at Tompkinsville, 

 was a lottery agent, and turned an honest penny as best he could. 

 As a journaHst it may be said of Mr. Baldwin that he was "up to 

 the times." I take the liberty of quoting from his address to his 

 patrons, when he began his work on Staten Island: 



" Encouraged by a distant prospect of success, we have become a 

 voluntary exile from our native city. We have cast our lot among 

 strangers, and we rely with confidence on their support. From 

 the slender population of the Island we have not much to expect — 

 we throw ourself on the liberality of our enlightened and gener- 

 ous people. Richmond is, we beheve, the only county in this 

 flourishing and prosperous State that does not support a press. A 

 newspaper is a stranger among you, and, therefore, as a stranger, 

 bid it welcome. 



" Let not the present attempt to sustain the character and dig- 

 nity of this goodly portion of the commonwealth become abortive. 

 We ask not — we expect not a rich reward for our services, but we 

 do expect some trifling remuneration for our labor. There 

 are few situations so arduous as, and more unpleasant than that of 

 an editor of a public journal. He must cater for the tastes of his 

 patrons, which are frequently as changeable as the colors of the 

 chameleon. Every eye is fixed upon him, and everybody takes 

 the liberty to censure him and dictate the course he should pursue. 

 His political opponents load him with bitter invectives, and those 

 whom he had considered his political friends too frequently desert 

 him when their ends are answered and his ' gray goose quill ' can 

 be of no further service to them. 



" In our former efforts we have incessantly, and as the world 

 goes, universally labored to expose corruption in the administra- 

 tion of justice, and most villainous swindling in legalized gambling, 

 but 'poverty, the reward of honest fools,' o'ertook us for it. 

 We now stand indicted for exposing the corrupt practices of the 



