He was also the editor of multiple abolitionist newspapers such as The Elevator, The Northern Star, and Freeman's Advocate, and The Telegraph and Temperance Journal.

[2] Stephen and his wife Harriet provided safe houses for freedom seekers and supplied them with financial support through the Vigilance Committee.

He collaborated with Samuel Ringgold Ward on journalistic activities, spoke at the Liberty Street Presbyterian Church pastored by Henry Highland Garnet, and shared the speaking stage with Frederick Douglass.

[5][6] Myers eventually merged the Northern Star with another newspaper known as the True American to create the Impartial Citizen, which published out of Syracuse, New York.

This paper ceased publication two years later after its editor and publisher, Samuel Ringgold Ward, fled to Canada after his involvement in the Jerry Rescue.