The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1860-06-16

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the heart.
In this view, and not this alone, we bid
our brother an afectionate welcome home.
We feel stern joy in finding him once
more among .us-such joy as warriors feel
when, in the midst of battle, they recog-
nize the Scared and grimy face of an ac-
customed and reliable leader; for we are
at this moment in the very hottest of the
| fight in the country at large, and in our
own State more especially.
In the country at large, there are no
doubtful indications that the Republican
party-the remnant of our nursing mother,
the old Wing party-intends to wean us,
and has not spared the bitter aloes from
the hands of Bates, Lincoln, Seward, and
Greeley In our own State, promptly be-
fore us is the franchise battle, for which we
are bound to make a gallant struggle.
Hence the arrival among us of Frederick
Douglass is most opportune. We look for
his stalwait form and lofty plume, and we
find them where they should be--in the
forefront of the battle
But the fight requires men and means
as well as leaders. We bespeak for Fred
erick Douglass Paper the most cordial
and earnest support. Let the old subscri-
bers pay up, and let new ones send for
ward their names and monies with open
heart and open hand. His paper is an in
stitution with glorious past, and, we trust,
more glorious future. We have not
striven to vie with it in its special mission,
because the effort would be hopeless on
our part; nor would we if we could. To
stir up and keep alive an undying war
against slavery and holding; to keep
alive in the breasts of black men their es-
pecial relations and duties to the bleeding
and down-trodden slave; to rebuke the
pro-slayery sentiment and conduct of the
relatively free North-these are walks
which Frederick Douglass, of all other
men, especially treads alone-a Macgre-
gor on his native heath And we hold
up both hands, and call upon our brethren
to hold up both hands, to support him.
Many years ago, while yet in the ranks
of the old organization, Mr.. Douglass had
the sagacity to see, and the daring to act
out to the letter, the fact that the fight
against American slavery is the black
mans fight. No sooner convinced was he
of this cardinal principle than he acted up
on it, although it cost him the sympathy of
his hitherto anti-slavery coadjutors, and
threw him upon the support of those-the
free colored people-who had not then,
and have hardly yet, come up to the right
conception or cordial support of his plat
form. In all the intervening years, with
the GOODNESS and, sad to say, not seldom
embittered opposition of his anti-slavery
friends on the one hand, and the luke
warm appreciation of his colored brethren
on the other-all these intervening years
Frederick Douglass has maintained a
straightforward, manly, selfrelying strug
gle, with zeal, earnestness, and unfalter-
ing fortitude worthy of the man and the
cause.
Il NaI {hav.
than alleged, that Frederick Douglass had
received large pecuniary aid from the Hon
that some years ago Mr. Smith presented
to Frederick Douglass for his paper twelve
hundred dollars, but required as an offset
an alteration in the size and paid editorial
assistance, such as made the gift the oppo-
site of a pecuniary help There have been
other small donations from the same gen.
tleman, amounting to less than two hum
dred dollars in the aggregate. Indeed, our
noble-hearted friend would seem to think
the gifts of this kind which he has made
being evidence-tha the black mans Ia
Dor at the press should be on his own
hook and self-supporting. We cannot sup
press our modification to see him send fifty
dollars to the "Anti-Slavery Standard, y
which Knocked and jeered at him while re-
Gently candidate for Governor, while he
sends only twenty dollars to Frederick
Douglass Paper" which largely lost sub
scribers by supporting Gcrrit Smith for
Governor in 1858.
Of the circumstances connected with
Mr.. Douglass departure for Europe and
return home, we say nothing at present.
At the time of his departure he asked a
suspension of opinion for reasons which he
could not then and might never divulge
We have such thorough reliance in his
truthfulness, his fidelity TO the great cause
his unblenching courage, and undying