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38 object, are requested to act as agents for us; also, students in seminaries.

Addresses, in all cases, (post paid), on all business pertaining to the paper: "Charles B. Ray, Publisher of The Colored American."

Philadelphia depositories, where this paper can be had: 136 Lombard Sreet, and No. 2 Acorn Alley. S. H. Gloucester and J. J. G. Bias, Agents.

Prospectus of The Colored American, Volume II:

The Second Volume, New Series, of The Colored American, will be issued on the first Saturday in March, 1841.

This is the only paper in the United States, published and edited by a colored man, and expressly for the colored people.

Its objects are, more directly, the moral, social and political elevation and improvement of the free colored people; and the peaceful emancipation of the enslaved.

It will, therefore, advocate all lawful, as well as moral measures, to accomplish those objects.

The editor being a colored man, necessarily feels an interest in the welfare of the colored people, wherever found.

The paper, therefore, will not be regardless of the welfare of the colored people of other countries.

The editor, also being a Man, "whatever interests man, interests him." The paper, therefore, will not pass by, in silence, the reforms of the age, and whatever relates to our common humanity.

As the paper is devoted primarily to the interests of the colored population, and ought to be in every family, the editor intends to make it a first-rate family paper, devoting a column to the instruction of children, giving the general news of the day, as far as practicable, etc.; and nothing of an immoral tendency can find a place in its columns.

The paper ought to be patronized by the white community, to aid them in becoming better acquainted with the condition