This paper, in addition to its power in holding up the hands of those to whom it is especially devoted, also affords irrefutable evidence of the justice, safety and practicability of Immediate Emancipation; it further proves the immense loss which slavery inflicts on the land while it dooms such energies as his to the hereditary degradation of slavery.
It has been said in this Introduction, that Mr.Douglass had raised himself by his own efforts to the highest position in society.

As a successful editor, in our land, he occupies this position.

Our editors rule the land, and he is one of them.

As an orator and thinker, his position is equally high, in the opinion of his countrymen.

If a stranger in the United States would seek its most distinguished men--the movers of public opinion--he will find their names mentioned, and their movements chronicled, under the head of "BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH," in the daily papers.