It may, or it may not, have been best that it should not. This is not the time to discuss that question. Leave it to the future. When the war is over, the country is saved, peace is established, and the black man s rights are secured, as they will be, history, with an impartial hand, will dispose of that and sundry other questions. Not criticism, is the plain duty of the hour.
Words are now useful only as they stimulate to blows.
The office of speech now is only to point out who, where and how to strike to the best advantage. There is no time for delay. The tide is at its flood that leads on to fortune. Liberty won by white men would lack half its lustre. Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.