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THE AFRO-AMERICAN PRESS.
of Troy, published The Clarion. This paper, while not failing to treat the most momentous of questions—American Slavery—with weighty argument and skillful debate, was run, we are informed, mostly in the interest of the religious and moral improvement of his race, to whose wellfare he was wedded.
As one puts it,—"Mr. Garnett was a remarkable man." He was as telling a speaker, as he was a writer. A gentleman of ability and worth sums him up in the following manner: "He has gained the reputation of being a courteous and accomplished man, an able and eloquent debater, and a good writer."
