Philadelphia, 1st mo. 2d, 1852.
Frederick Douglass:—Respected Friend: I enclose two dollars to pay for thy paper the present year.
We are passing through a dark day, but let us have faith in the progress of truth, whenever we keep our shoulders to the wheel, praying for the blessing of the Great Ruler of the universe. Do not fail to rouse the indifferent, stir up the lukewarm, and contend earnestly, yet in a spirit of love, and charity, with opposers, but enter as little as possible, into disputes with abolitionists about measures. This, I believe, is wasting our strength and positively injuring the cause of humanity and emancipation. Let us fearlessly pursue the course which we conscientiously believe is right, advocating our views, principles, and measures, to the best of our ability, and disregarding, as much as possible, the reproaches, jealousies, and injustice of abolitionists, as well as of the enemies of the slave. We may labor to convince our friends, not less than our opponents, of their inconsistencies, and failure to carry their avowed principles into practice; but we should avoid making personal attacks, and "live down" those made upon us. I am glad thou hast, to a great extent, treated with merited disregard, the unjust reflections thrown upon thy course of latter time, and that thou mayest continue to do so, and have a due care of thy health, which seems to be frequently interrupted, is the wish of thy friend truly
SAMUEL RHOADSRhoads, Samuel, Jr.

Samuel Rhoads, Jr. (c. 1807–68) was the son of Samuel Rhoads, a member of the Continental Congress and mayor of Philadelphia in 1774. He was educated at Haverford College in Philadelphia. An orthodox Quaker, Rhoads assisted Myrtilla Miner in the establishment of her school for African Americans in Washington in the early 1850s. Rhoads actively supported the antislavery movement and wrote Considerations of the Use of the Productions of Slavery, Addressed to the Religious Society of Friends (1845). On 20 June 1845, a group of Philadelphia Quakers, along with Rhoads, met to discuss the merits of a free-produce association. They met again on 19 September to ratify the constitution of the Philadelphia Free Produce Association of Friends (PFPA) to promote the abolishment of slavery by the purchase and manufacture of free-labor cotton and other goods. Samuel Rhoads was designated a manager of the free-labor store and participated in the Committee on Supplies and the Committee on Manufactures. He was the editor of the Non-Slaveholder, a publication used to disseminate information relative to the PFPA’s work, from 1846 until its closure in 1850. The mission of the PFPA was later carried out through the publication of the more liberal Friends’ Review: A Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Journal established in 1857. Rhoads assumed the editorship and remained editor of the Friends’ Review until his death. Ruth Ketring Nuermberger, The Free Produce Movement: A Quaker Protest against Slavery (Durham, 1942), 35n, 36, 65n, 96, 105, 107; Mabee, Black Freedom, 142, 202; BDUSC (online). .