When the war is over, the country is saved, peace is established, and the black man’s rights are secured, as they will be, history with an impartial hand will dispose of that and sundry other questions.
From a speech urging black men to enlist during the Civil War, this statement looks ahead to the eventual resolution of racial questions by history.
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