...deceived by misrepresentations, in things which concern us dearly," read the newspaper's first editorial. "From the press and the pulpit we have suffered much by being incorrectly represented. . . . Our vices and our degradation are ever arrayed against us, but our virtues are passed by unnoticed."...

...reports on free blacks led to inaccuracies about black people becoming lodged in the white imagination. "From the press and the pulpit we have suffered much by being incorrectly represented," they announced. "Men, who we equally love and admire have not hesitated to represent us disadvantageously,...

...sympathies be poured forth, and our prayers in their behalf, ascend to Him who is able to succour them. From the press and the pulpit we have suffered much...love and admire have not hesitated to represent us disadvantageous!)-, without becoming personally acquainted with the true state of things, nor discerning...

...Too long has the public been deceived by misrepresentations, in things which concern us dearly. . . . From the press and the pulpit we have suffered much by being incorrectly represented. Our vices and our degradation are ever arrayed against us, but our virtues are passed by unnoticed."1...

...Cornish and Russwurm also stated their concern with the racist nature of other influential rhetoric. "From the press and the pulpit we have suffered much by being incorrectly represented," they asserted. The editors specifically identified rhetoric emanating from the "pulpit," such as the...

...the era's central debates within and across these constituencies, often at their peril. Noting that "From the press and the pulpit we have suffered much by being incorrectly represented," Cornish and Russworm had famously insisted in their inaugural issue that the time had come "to plead...