WHITES AND BLACKS OR THE QUESTION SETTLED 52

 

HON. C. H. J. TAYLOR, Attorney at Law, 

and Late United States Minister Resident and Consul-General to Liberia. 

CHAPTER VII. OUR CHRISTIAN DUTY

England and Portugal, the beginners of the slave trade on the American continent, have so far removed themselves from the mixed curse and blessing, until today they make no hurtful distinction on the ground of color.

If you are a Negro reader, suffer me to say that all I live for is to see you acknowledged as a man, the equal of other men, and when that day comes, when the world acknowledges your manhood, as a race, then will I say: "Lord now let me, thy servant, depart in peace."

Be patient, ever hoping, ever sober, ever industrious, and at a day sooner than either of you, representing the two races, think the question will be peaceably settled, to the perfect and entire satisfaction of all.

This is the last  of this series I call SUBJUGATE