The Compiler was a newspaper founded in 1857 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that also serviced the wider Adams County.

Stahle was vehemently against a war with the south, and had his newspaper often ran pro-Democrat, anti-Black, and anti-War material.

Marshal who sent him to be detained in Fort McHenry in Baltimore under accusation of aiding the Confederates during the occupation.

During Stahle's imprisonment his cousin, M. E. Doll, acted as owner, editor, and publisher in his place.

However, the newspaper strongly attacked the Gettysburg Address, calling it the "Relief of the Contrabands," and "The Negro Proclamation," warning their readers that the millions of freed slaves will move to the north and flood major U.S.