Cornish left the "Freedom's Journal" after only six months of editing the paper. Reportedly, Samuel Cornish took issue with junior editor John B. Russwurm's stance on the issue of colonization. Cornish was in opposition of free Black Americans emigrating to U.S.-controlled Liberia. Russwurm, on the other hand, supported the American Colonization Society's mission to transport free African Americans to Liberia. After Russwurm's departure from "Freedom's Journal" in 1829, Cornish briefly returned to the paper, renamed "The Rights of All." The publication officially shut down in 1830.