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Rh did they speak for them but they gave them from their own pockets funds to help them build their church. Mr. Robert Ralston was even treasurer for them. Never mind how dark it seemed for us, there has never been a time in this country’s history when there were not some white men who would not champion our cause. John Brown did it when the whole country was on the verge of bowing forever to slavery, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elijah Lovejoy defied the fugitive slave law and spoke and wrote until they molded sentiment that started the Union Army against the demon of slavery, whose head was crushed forever at Appomattox court house. Don’t let us believe that all of the white people are our enemies, they are not. If they were, we could not be here in America with them a year; some of them desire us to have common justice, yes some have risked their lives for us, and some would do it again in our defense. Let us not be as cruel to their whole race as many of them are to us; and hate them all for what some of them do; no race labors under that group law more than the Negro. In that the newspapers and mag