“I did more for the Russian serf in
giving him land as well as personal liberty, than America did for the negro slave
set free by the proclamation of President Lincoln. I am at a loss to understand
how you Americans could have been so blind as to leave the negro slave without
tools to work out his salvation. In giving him personal liberty, you have him
an obligation to perform to the state which he must be unable to fulfill.
Without property of any kind he cannot educate himself and his children. I
believe the time must come when many will question the manner of American
emancipation of the negro slaves in 1863. The vote, in the hands of an ignorant
man, without either property or self respect, will be used to the damage of the
people at large; for the rich man, without honor or any kind of patriotism,
will purchase it, and with it swamp the rights of a free people. Russia on a
Map of the World today.
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