The champions of negro emancipation had merely hoped to speed their grand cause a little by their faithful labors, and hand over to coming generations the glory of crowning it with success; but they now saw it triumphant, and they had abundant and unbounded cause to rejoice.
Julian acknowledges the triumph of the emancipation movement and the joy it brings to its advocates.
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