The Fox: The Friend takes the news initiative

The editor introduces a unique Friend venture

by Judy Kirby 12th November 2009

The first issue of this newspaper carried a story that immediately nailed its colours to the mast. It was to be a forthright, campaigning voice. Readers heard that: ‘the Indian Reports of the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia, for 1841 and 1843, renew the sad story of the removal of the red man to make way for the white, by means of treaties, into which he is inveigled, and which when carried into execution, are a manifest and great injustice, which he is in no condition to withstand’.