"Permit me to express my full and hearty approval of the manner and ability with which the paper has been conducted during the past year; and to express a hope that it will be conducted in future in the same fearless and independent spirit; and prove the means, under Divine Providence, of restoring our much injured colored brethren to their just rights; for it is a time, of all others, to stand firm, when our able Northern statesmen are recreant to their duty, and quite under the influence of that cursed system, SLAVERY."

Jarvis ShoveShove, Jarvis

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