The trouble is not that the colored people of the South are indolent, but that no matter how hard or how persistent may be their industry, they get barely enough for their labor to support life at the very low point at which we find them.
He explains that the struggle of colored workers is not due to laziness but rather insufficient compensation for their hard work.
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The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.
It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.
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