Editorial signed by Reuben Ruby by the Committee of the ‘American Reformed Board of Disfranchised Commissioners’

Reuben Ruby was engaged as a leader with the American Reformed Board of Disfranchised Commissioners.  The editorial asks for reports on the following for their next meeting:
“-First – The statistics of our people in the place which you reside.
-Secondly, – the number of children in schools, and the state of education, &c.
-Thirdly, – The number of mechanics, their different trades, and how employed.
-Fourthly, – The condition of our people generally in relation to the “PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS”