"_The Colored American_, we are glad to see, has reappeared in
the field, under the conduct of our enterprising and talented
Brother Ray. It will maintain a very handsome rank among the
antislavery periodicals, and we hope will be well sustained and
kept up by both, colored and uncolored patronage.

"It must be a matter of pride to our colored friends, as it is to
us, that they are already able to vindicate the claims our
enterprise has always made in their behalf,--to an equal
intellectual rank in this heterogeneous (but 'homogeneous')
community.

"It is no longer necessary for abolitionists to contend against
the blunder of pro-slavery,--that the colored people are inferior
to the whites; for these people are practically demonstrating its
falseness. They have men enough in action now, to maintain the
anti-slavery enterprise, and to win their liberty, and that of
their enslaved brethren,--if every white abolitionist were drawn
from the field: McCune Smith, and Cornish, and Wright and Ray and
a host of others,--not to mention our eloquent brother, Remond,
of Maine, and Brother Lewis who is the stay and staff of field
antislavery in New Hampshire.

"The people of such men as these cannot be held in slavery. They
have got their pens drawn and tried their voices, and they are
seen to be the pens and voices of human genius; and they will
neither lay down the one, nor will they hush the other, till
their brethren are free.

"The Calhouns and Clays may display their vain oratory and
metaphysics, but they tremble when they behold the colored man is
in the intellectual field. The time is at hand, when this
terrible denunciation shall thunder in their own race."[8]

_The Christian Witness_ said the following:

"_The Colored American._ Returning from the country, we are glad
to find upon our table several copies of this excellent paper,
which has waked up with renewed strength and beauty. It is now
under the exclusive control of Charles B. Ray, a gentleman in
every manner competent to the duties devolving upon him in the
station he occupies. Our colored friends generally, and all those
who can do so, would bestow their patronage worthily by giving it
to _The Colored American_."[9]

As to the sort of editor Charles B. Ray was, we can bes