Maria Webb ALS to A[nna] M. C. Barnes, October 10, 1859

that the liberal support of the
Frederick Douglass paper
occupying the peculiar
position it does in relation
to the coloured people to
be of immense importance
I do not think there is in
America another antislavery
paper that has such stronger claims
for antislavery support so
as to enable it to maintain
a spirited stand on the
abolition principles and (not give)
ground it has taken.
I believe most assuredly
in the correctness of the
Radical abolition principles
recognized in that paper
and I can understand at
what a sacrifice to his
private interest Frederick
Douglass made when he adopted and
has since followed out those
principles - Yet I by no