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The Publishers of the Liberator have formed their co-partnership with a determination to print this paper as long as they can subsist upon bread and water, or their hands obtain employment. The friends of the cause may, therefore, take courage; its enemies—may surrender at discretion.

The Liberator, Vol. I, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1831)