Let us then, wherever we are, whether at the North or at the South, resolutely struggle on in the belief that there is a better day coming, and that we by patience, industry, uprightness, and economy may hasten that better day.
Douglass urges African Americans across the nation to persist in their efforts for progress through virtue and hard work.
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