West Newton, Jan. 27, 1848

The North Star pleases me far beyond my very favorable anticipations. That I agree with all the sentiments it advances, I by no means say; nor would I deem it worth my subscription money if I did, since it could then give me no new light, or food for thought and investigation. I look upon the enterprise, of which its publication is the fruit, (viz: the elevation of the colored man to his just rights and respectful consideration,) as an enterprise fraught with hope for universal humanity, since the unjust degradation of one class in a nation tends ever to lower, by injustice, every other class. The wrong-doer is always injured to the full extent of his victim’s suffering. Accept my hearty good wishes for the continued success of all engaged in your honorable undertaking, and believe me

Yours, very truly,

Arthur B. FullerFuller, Arthur Buckminster

Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1822–62) was a Unitarian minister in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, becoming a chaplain in the Union Army in 1861. He was born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, to Congressman Timothy Fuller. He attended Harvard as an undergraduate and also went to the Divinity School there. Fuller’s first preaching position was in West Newton, Massachusetts, for three months in 1848. His sister was Sarah Margaret Fuller, a pioneering woman in journalism. Fuller died at the Battle of Fredericksburg in late 1862. Richard F. Fuller, Chaplain Fuller: Being a Life Sketch (Boston, 1864), 88; Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 2 vols. (Cambridge, Mass., 1866), 1:79–94. .