With the power of the colored people to migrate, whenever they are unjustly treated, to a place where law and justice prevail, with the capacity for labor and to acquire property, with reasonable opportunity for education, they will in time make sure their rights as citizens.
Sherman emphasizes the importance of education and opportunity for Black individuals to secure their rights as citizens.
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