Let us rather encourage them to honorable and useful industry, where it may be beneficial to themselves and to the country; and, instead of hasty anticipations of the certainty of failure, let there be nothing wanting to the fair trial of the experiment.
Johnson calls for support of freedmen in their pursuit of productive work rather than premature judgments of failure.
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