NOTE:"The North Star" is available on microfilm at the Schomburg Collection in New York City.
". . .the overwhelming mass have remained silent as the grave on the subject. The Impartial Citizen, edited by a colored man, did not even notice it. The Ram's Horn has been dumb over it. Very few of our public men have, as yet, given to the idea the slightest encouragement. Pittsburgh, that should always be ready to speak, as she always has an opinion, has been silent! Cincinnati, containing a colored population as intelligent, active and wealthy as any in the country, has not lisped a word, pro or con, on the subject. New York, as usual, has nothing to say."
"The North Star," 10/26/1848 on the lack of response to co editor Frederick Douglass's recent failed effort to create an organization of free blacks called the National League of Colored People (Ullman, p. 105)
