The man was Isaac Knapp, an old companion of his in Newburyport, who had also worked with him in the office of the _Genius_, in Baltimore.

He was a practical printer, and was precisely the sort of assistant that the young reformer needed at this juncture in the execution of his purpose; a man like himself acquainted with poverty, and of unlimited capacity for the endurance of unlimited hardships.

Together they worked out the financial problems which blocked the way to the publication of the paper.

The partners took an office in Merchants' Hall building, then standing on the corner of Congress and Water streets, Boston, which gave their joint enterprise a local habitation.

It had already a name.