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84 editorial department. The Anglo-African was a most worthy paper. The publishers were men of great intellectual, as well as journalistic ability. The opinion of Mr. Douglass is—"It had more promise, and more journalistic ability about it, than any of the other papers."

It was a large sheet, of four pages, with seven columns to a page. These were larger than ordinary newspaper columns.

It had at their head the following:

The Weekly Anglo-African is published every Saturday by Thomas Hamilton, 43 Beekman Street, New York.

Terms of Subscription: Two dollars per year, or four cents per copy. Thus it went forth, and made a noble light for the Abolition cause.

Papers published at this time were watched with a criticising eye by almost every man among the white people. The editorial backing was closely observed, as well as the journalistic look of the paper.

This ordeal The Anglo-African was able to meet. Whenever weighed in the journalistic balances, it was not found wanting.

Mr. Thomas Hamilton, like his brother, was a man of superior ability, and of much experience in his profession. He was on The Evangelist for a long while, and had been one of the proprietors of The People's Press. Many are of the opinion that The Anglo-African was the better publication of the two. We will not venture the opinion that it was the best paper published, but we will say it was the largest.

The great, feature of The Anglo-African was, that it did not seek to make itself a paper whose matter should originate in the Hamilton family alone; and some of its contributors were known to embrace the best Afro-American talent of those days; the result being a genuine Afro-American newspaper.