NORTHERN STAR & FREEMEN's ADVOCATE


ALBANY. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1912.
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We take this opportunity to tender our hearty
and sincere thanks to our old friends and the pub
liz generally, for the support they have already
extended us in aid of our humble enterprise. We
Are more than ever convinced that any people 81
tuated as the colored race are and have been,
within these United States, must first become
sensible of their awful condition in every
sense of the word, moral political and religious,
and then inquire the cause, and when they have
found It out make it known to the world, and go.
NJ work themselves to educate the rising genera
ton, and every good citizen will encourage the
object. for it is known to all that ignorance rs at
enmty with truth and good works. And if it is
necessary that man must first become enlighten-
ed himself before he can enlighteu his fellow
man. and it really doer rot become his duty un-
til he is thus qualified, we therefore feel happy
when we reflect that the better portion OF the
white population have very different views in re-
card to the capacity Of the colored man now, to
what they have unhappily entertained heretofore,
and in proportion to the growth Of that good feel


