But now,” as one of them very frankly said during the evening, “we see that our future is indissolubly bound up with that of the negro race in this country; and we have resolved to make common cause, and rise or fall with them.
A participant at the event expresses a newfound solidarity with the African American community in the wake of the Civil War.
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