Excerpt from Review of the Revolutionary Elements of the Rebellion, and of the Aspect of Reconstruction: With a Plan to Restore Harmony Between the Two Races in the Southern States
The design of the Review, as indicated by its title, is to note with care the new birth of the Republic and to bring the colored people into the foreground where they may be seen as the advocates of the union between the two races, and upon the basis that will secure freedom and elevation on one hand and peace and good-will on the other.
But while it may be right that the colored people should stand back until the position for them is established through the genius and the magnanimity, of the dominant race, yet the sublimity of the work, to build up the Republic with the new materials at hand, and the necessity of testing their skill and usefulness in the new field where the destiny of the nation has placed them, will fully justify the attempt to create such ideas in the history of the times as will make a profound impression in their favor in the minds of the American people. As the time has arrived to redeem the solemn pledge of fidelity made to the friends who first led the author into the mission, and the fact that the purpose of the declaration as written contained the principles which aimed at the elevation of the colored people of the United States, it will be sufficient to strip it of all assumption and at the same time show the grandeur of the subject, and the overwhelming effect that will follow from the development of the. plan for the accomplishment of that object. Viewing it at that time as the initiative to the reformation in the institutions that were organized for the management of the philanthropy of the nation, and make the result redound to the glory of the American people by the elevation of the proscribed race of the country, it will present a feature sufficiently grand to command tho approbation it will aim to secure by the publication of this work.
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