The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-09-01

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far as he entitled to it. He claims to have
been the first publisherin the United States who
digested plan for the circulation of cheap
books and periodical literature. His plan con-
| templates giving to American authors the benefit
of the copy right for their own works. In fact
to constitute them publishers without the labor
or the risk ofpublishing.
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success of the whole plan depends first upon the
city of Baltimore. The price Of the weekly and
country has been reduced so low q to secure an
extensive circulatioM-but it is so low that to
publish ii we must receive large city subscnp-
ton and fair proportion of advertising patron
age.
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not venture to propose our plan until we had first
ascerained, to some extent, the willingness of the
merchants, manufacturers, mechanics and bust
ness men of Baltimore to recommend the Pilot
to public patronage; and with this view we pre-
pared and submitted througha clerk in our Office,
the recommendation given below. The respectable
names there given were obtained in a few hours,
and this effort satisfied US that with the revival
of trade, we may expect full share of adver-
tisements and large increase of subscribers.
| II is intended to strike off several thousand
extra copies of this number, which will, be dis
tributed by our carriers, and agents will in
few days, wait upon the citizens for the purpose
of obtaining additional names to the recommen-
dation, and additional subscribers. It is intend
ed to issue very large edition Of our next week
ly paper, to be distributed, as specimen, to
most of the Post masters in the South and West,
and in that number additional names of those
who recommend it will be given.
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made to place it the hands Of business men, es-
pecially of merchants end professional men, and
in the public houses.
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sertion in the daily literary paper,-that viii be
nuetra in its politics, and cannot fail to obtain
extensive local circulation. They will also be in
serted in the country paper, and thus the Pilot
will become the most valuable medium of adver-
Using.
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Baltimore with the West. Whatever difference
of opinion there may have been, in relation to
the first undertaking of these great works, pecu-
liarly the works Of Baltimore, there be but
one sentiment as to their early completion. To
sustain public opinion in relation to them, and to
make them available when completed, by giving
deserved prominence to the natural and other
advantages of our city, and illustrating the bene-
fits to the merchants and business men of the in
terror and of the great West, by concentrating
their commerce at this point, will be special
duty of the Pilot.
To accomplish this, the Editor will devote his
own energies and experience, and such other
aid as the liberal patronage which he may receive,
will warrant
| The Recommendation of the Merchants, Me-
chanics, Manufacturers, and citizens of Balti-
more is given below, that business men in the
interior may see that the undertaking is sustain
ed by kind feeling here, and that all that is
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the offer be received by the merchants, farmers,
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spirit.
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ways bring something to cheer the domestic
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: The undersigned Merchants, Mechanics, Man
ufacturers, and citizens of Baltimore, hereby re-
commend the Pilot, political, commercial, and
miscellaneous newspaper, published by Duf
Green, to the patronage of the public.
Baltimore, august 5th, 1910.
. Alex Brown s, Sons L. M. Warner & Co.
VIM. Wilson s Son Aldridge, Higdon & CO
Hopkins, Bro, s Co. Jas. Lovegrove
Wells s Miller James Russell
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