The Montgomery Republican, founded by Battelle in 1821, changed its name in 1825 and became the Montgomery Journal. It supported Adams from the first. The Cahawba Press, founded in 1819 at the State Capital by William B. Allen, a native of Boston, joined the support of Adams with that of Pickens and the State Bank. In 1824, Allen sold his paper to a Mr. Lumpkin, but when the purchaser proceeded to support Crawford, the friends of the State Bank, both Jackson and Adams men, combined to set Allen up in business again and to give a new lease of life to the Press. The fact that Allen, in spite of the competition of Lumpkin and others, was elected State printer as long as the capital remained at Cahawba, shows that the support of Adams was not particularly prejudicial to the popularity of an editor so long as he was a friend of "the people's Bank."

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