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Rh and claims of their fellow-citizens, and on account of the influence it will exert among the latter, and in their behalf.

The colored population ought to patronize it, because it belongs to them, and for the sake of its success.

Price, Two Dollars per annum, always in advance. No subscription received for a less term than six months.

, Editor and Proprietor, No. 9 Spruce Street, New York.

The sentiments of the press are here given concerning the re-appearance of The Colored American, after a short term of suspension. Says The American,—"We insert, once for all, the sentiments of the press in relation to our re-appearance among them; and our readers must not attribute to us motives of vanity in doing so,—for better things move us than a vain show. We intend to keep self where it should be, out of sight.

In combating the prejudices of the strong, on the one hand, and in defending the character of the weak, on the other; in advocating an unpopular cause, and coming in contact with such a variety of mind and of taste, and in bearing up under our present duties and responsibilities, in such times as these, such sentiments from an enlightened and judicious corps-editorial are encouraging, and furnish us with additional testimony that we are not ill-timed and out of place but needful, and deserve a place among the mouthpieces of different sects, parties and classes now existing.

We presume our readers, who do not see these expressions of opinion as we do, will be glad to know what the press has said about us; and we think such sentiments will both encourage and stimulate them to be vigilant in giving us aid as they incite us to labor to show ourselves worthy to be sustained."

"The Colored American, we are glad to see, has re-appeared in the field, under the conduct of our enterprising and