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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 26 (search)
the negro, that he might more cheerfully do his duty. We were calling, in our peril, on a wronged race, which had been cheated of its rights again and again in every national emergency, and begging them now to trust and to help us, obliged to tell them they would have no commis. sions, but must serve under white officers. , Will they be men whose hearts are with us? we were constantly asked by the negro. We trembled while we answered, , We hope so, we believe so. At this crisis, Colonel Sterenson, standing at Hunter's side, spits on the government's movements. It was a moment and an act which fixed the attention of the nation. It was an act which, so far as one man could, perilled a great and necessary movement. It deserved, therefore, severe rebuke. It was an act which gave the administration the very best opportunity to show the world its purpose be. yond a doubt. One right, decisive word from the Senate, and no officer in the service would afterwards mistake the purpose