ABSTRACT
Certain course of events proved that Frederick Douglass was wholly right in his determination not to take up his residence in one of the Southern states for political purposes. There was apparently a pressing need for a national organ to advance the cause of the Negro, and it was believed that the name of Douglass at its head would surely bring it a wide circulation, as well as a commanding influence. After he had settled in Washington, two things at once engaged his attention: the publication of another paper, The New National Era, and the Freedmen's Bank. Thousands of the depositors first came to know and realise their relationship to the government at Washington through it. The owners of United States bonds did not feel more secure than did these trusting new citizens of the republic.
