they always had a poetry and this one was by whittier, john greenleaf whittier, he published a number of poems that related to slavery and the sadnesss connected with those enslaved. you'll see in this issue, march 6, 1843, that now foster and beckley are the publishers of the newspaper. they will have taken over until 1847. when beckley resigned and foster then continued for some, at least another year. they had publishing information begging for subscriptions or wood or chickens or anything they could get in exchange for the newspaper. here's a poem again related to slaves by longfellow. they then included national news and michigan temperance society. doctrines at washington. so the national news was very important to include. they would sometimes follow that with discussions, or alternative viewpoints that might, of an opposing view. the underground railroad had become quite effective by the 8 1840s and got to be very effective in the 1850s, and it was proven not only by the northerners making claims, but by people in slave-holding states. going to their legislature and saying hel