Samuel Eli Cornish (1795 – November 6, 1858) was an American Presbyterian minister, abolitionist, publisher, and journalist.

[2] It was intended to serve the 300,000 free blacks in the country and especially New York's community, as well as to offset the racist commentary of local papers in the city.

[4] During the two years Russwurm was in sole charge of Freedom's Journal, he reversed his position on colonization and lost many readers.

[5] In 1833 Cornish was one of the founding members of the American Anti-Slavery Society, whose membership and leaders were interracial.

That year, he left to join the newly formed American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, largely because of disputes with William Lloyd Garrison over religion in the Abolitionist movement.