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30 It is highly important, therefore, I conceive, that this subject be duly and attentively considered by our people generally. We must gain some influence in our own country. At present, we have none. In our large cities, we are passed by as not at all incorporated in the body politic. Let us then resort to those measures, and pursue that course, which will be of the most advantage to us and will cause a colored American's influence to be weighed and valued.

Rev. Cornish retired from the publication of The Freedom's Journal, Mr. Russwurm assuming sole editorial control, with the issue of September 4, 1827, Vol. I, No. 27. The Journal was continued the year out. With the issue of March 21, 1828, the name of the paper was changed to Rights of All. Mr. Russwurm continued to follow, with unabating interest, the line of policy prescribed by The Freedoms Journal. It fought for Afro-American freedom and Afro-American citizenship. Mr. Russwurm's two publications were made more powerful, and the sentiment of the two more respected, because of its large list of agents and contributors, who were remarkable men, either for their work in behalf of the Afro-American or as the fathers of public-spirited descendants.

The following are some of them as found upon the paper:

David Walker, (Author of Walker's Appeal) Reuben, Portland, Me; Rev. Thomas Paul, Boston; Francis Webb, Boston; Stephen Smith, Columbia, Penn.; John Lemond, Salem, Mass.; Hezekiah Grice, Baltimore, Md.; Rev. Nathaniel Paul, Albany, N. Y.; Rev. Theodore S. Wright, Princeton, N. Y.; M. De Baptist, Fredericksburg, Va.; B. F. Hughes, Newark, N. J.; John W. Print, Washington, D. C.; Austin Stewart, Rochester, N. Y.; Rev. R. Vaughn, Richmond, Va.; George De Grave, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Seth Henhaws, Post-Master, New Salem; John C. Stanley, New Berne; Lewis Sheridan, Elizabethtown, N. C.; Joseph Hughes, Richmond, Va.; and others.

The Rights of All suspended publication in 1830, it having been conducted under more opposing circumstances than The Freedom's Journal, owing, possibly, to the great amount of