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[428] These were some of the fresh aspects which began to be seen wherever the Colored people were found; and it gave good ground for encouragement to assist them. A new responsibility was rolled upon the whole rank and file of the body of White society. Even those who had been the least hopeful, not to say the most provokingly prophetic of evil omen, found themselves insensibly participating in the general feeling of sympathy and respect. And so the five millions of Americans of African descent halted suddenly on their dreary and downward road, and with a ‘right about face,’ they began their ‘forward march.’
United States Publishing Company, 1874.
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