Today we are gradually coming to realize that government by temporary coalition of small and diverse groups may easily become the most efficient method of expressing the will of man and of setting the human soul free.
Du Bois expresses a belief that governance through diverse groups can effectively represent the people's will and promote freedom.
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By 1830 slavery seemed hopelessly fastened on the South, and the slaves thoroughly cowed into submission.
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.
The first decade was merely a prolongation of the vain search for freedom, the boon that seemed ever barely to elude their grasp,—like a tantalizing will-o’-the-wisp, maddening and misleading the headless host.
And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.