Hitherto, we have seen vengeance terrible in his hands.
"While we, the oppressed, stayed upon the plantation in peace, our oppressors were upon the field of battle engaged in mortal combat; and it was the blood of our oppressor, not our own, that was paid as the price of our freedom.

And that same God is alive to-day; and let us trust Him for vengeance, and if we pray let our prayer be for mercy on those who have wronged us, for direful shall be their woes.
"And now, I have a substitute proposition.

Fellow Comrades, I am not for internecine war.

O! Eternal God, lend unto these, my Comrades, the departed spirit of Dante, faithful artist of the horrors of hell, for we feel that he alone can paint the shudder-making, soul-sickening scenes that follow in the wake of fast moving internecine war.
"Now, hear my solution of the race problem.

The Anglo-Saxon does not yet know that we have caught the fire of liberty.