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Whitelaw Reid: Believing in your future as I do, I feel sure you will have it sometime; perhaps very soon; perhaps a good while hence.

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Believing in your future as I do, I feel sure you will have it sometime; perhaps very soon; perhaps a good while hence.
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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid expresses optimism about the future of suffrage for black men.

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