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in our unwillingness to strike?
Why this unwillingness to strike?
Because we do not yet see John Hancock under a black skin; and until we do see him, we shall never wage an honest and utter battle.
No man who does not grant to the negro his just place is fit to be enlisted in the army of the Union, or to stand in its Senate, if that Union means liberty; or if that is an exaggerated statement, certainly no man has a right to lead our Senate or our army who does not carry that idea in his heart.
[Applause.]
Never until we welcome the negro, the foreigner, all races as equals, and, melted together in a common nationality, hurl them all at despotism, will the North deserve triumph or earn it at the hands of a just God.
[Applause.]
Lee and Shepard, 1891.
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