To the Friends and Readers of the North Star.

DEAR FRIENDS,ーWe are reluctantly compelled to call upon you for pecuniary assistance. We have succeeded in publishing our paper nearly five months, without running in debt to any man, and we desire to continue its publication free from such embarrassments. But in order to do so, we are under the necessity of calling upon you for immediate pecuniary aid. It must be evident to all who have any knowledge of the expense of publishing a large weekly newspaper, that something more than the bare subscription list is required to sustain it during the first year of its issue. We have exerted ourselves to obtain subscribers, and have succeeded to an encouraging extent; but it is impossible in our circumstances, commencing as we did with but a small number of subscribers, to obtain a sufficient number to float unencumbered from week to week. In the confident hope that you will come to our assistance, we make no further appeal.

N.B. All donations in aid of the paper, will be most thankfully received; and promptly acknowledged through the columns of the North Star.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS,

M. R. DELANY.