The stern logic of events, which goes directly to the point, disdaining all concern for the color or features of men, has determined the interests of the country as identical with and inseparable from those of the negro.
He asserts that the interests of the country are intertwined with those of the negro, regardless of race.
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This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.