A letter from “A Man of Color”. with no namer, offers encouragement. Here are excerpts: “I see before you a mountain over which you have to travel, steep and dark, and pregnant with deep-rooted prejudice of long duration … hope that by the force of truth, sound and mild reasoning, many will come up to your assistance in this great work of human rights, of which we are not so ignorant as many have supposed … public opinion is a masterly engine, and I hope you will secure it in your present enterprise…”
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