sentences:  "The Philadelphia Inquirer" was founded as "The Pennsylvania Inquirer" by printer John R. Walker and John Norvell, former editor of Philadelphia's largest newspaper, the "Aurora & Gazette".An editorial in the first issue of "The Pennsylvania Inquirer" promised that the paper would be devoted to the right of a minority to voice their opinion and "the maintenance of the rights and liberties of the people, equally against the abuses as the usurpation of power.