[1][2] The paper urged community support for the Governor's Guard, an African American militia.
[3] It was one of the papers that noted writer and humorist Will Harris worked at.
[4] It decried Republican Party leaders for removing African Americans from patronage jobs in 1899.
[5] C. H. J. Taylor was its editor and a Populist Party candidate for state legislator in 1892.
[6] The paper described the burning at the stake of Fred Alexander as a warning African Americans needed to heed and unite or be exterminated.