Without abating one jot of our horror and indignation at the outrages committed in some parts of the Southern States against the negro, we cannot but regard the present agitation of an African exodus from the South as ill-timed and in some respects hurtful.
From his autobiography, expressing his view on the proposed exodus of African Americans from the South, on strategic approaches to racial injustice.
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Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
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