The length of the
debates on Thursday, the day when Parliament was adjourned, will
have been observed; on such an occasion the operation of
composing and printing the last page must commence among all the
journals at the same moment; and starting from that moment, we,
with our infinitely superior circulation, were enabled to throw
off our whole impression many hours before the other respectable
rival prints. The accuracy and clearness of the impression will
likewise excite attention.
"We shall make no reflections upon those by whom this wonderful
discovery has been opposed,--the doubters and unbelievers,--
however uncharitable they may have been to us; were it not that
the efforts of genius are always impeded by drivellers of this
description, and that we owe it to such men as Mr. Koenig and his
Friend, and all future promulgators of beneficial inventions, to
warn them that they will have to contend with everything that
selfishness and conceited ignorance can devise or say; and if we
cannot clear their way before them, we would at least give them
notice to prepare a panoply against its dirt and filth.
"There is another class of men from whom we receive dark and
anonymous threats of vengeance if we persevere in the use of this
machine. These are the Pressmen. They well know, at least
should well know, that such menace is thrown away upon us.
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