CHAPTER V.
THE NATIONAL WATCHMAN AND CLARION.
THE state of New York still gave evidence of her Afro-American sons' interest in the Abolition cause.
Still another messenger of warfare was issued from another portion of the state, under the title of The National Watchman. This paper was first published in Troy, in the latter part of 1842, having as its publisher and editor, Mr. William G. Allen, assisted by Henry Highland Garnett. His paper had but a very brief existence; however, it contended manfully for what its projectors hoped to see, and for what their souls desired.
Mr. Allen was among the few men of his time who could be looked upon as a highly educated gentleman. Into his paper he put all the intellectual strength his mighty brain could master, which made it no less able as an advocate than any of its contemporaries. In this brief period, he conducted his publication with journalistic tact and energy. In his editorial work he was assisted by one of the brainiest and most successful black men in the country.
Mr. Garnett, after his connection with the Watchman, and while he was pastor of the Liberty-Street Presbyterian Church
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