Cultivate by every means in your power the good opinion of your former master. Remember that they have suffered much and been severely tried the past five years. Bear in mind, too, that they have their prejudices and the prejudices of their fathers to contend against; and that, besides, they cannot, from their very circumstances, be expected to regard innovations in their midst in the same light that Northern Eutopians do.

But be patient. Recollect that when the time does come--that whatever claims or privileges are granted you by them--will, in their practical bearings, be worth to you far more than all the recognitions of the North. But anything suddenly forced upon the whites by any party hostile to the South--that you can never enjoy! In the North itself the negro's steps have been but of gradual measurement. We have heard some of your so-called friends say that nothing short of another revolution could save the cause; and you may be told by interested parties--vampires who feed on the "cause"--that, in the event of collision between yourselves and the whites--the North would stand by you. They would insinuate that, now you know the use of the cartridge-box, you should insist immediately on the ballot-box.

Yes the red man dared assert his claim to the fair country the Great Spirit had given him, and these men's fathers speedily "improved him off the face of the earth;" and their descendants to this day ignore the claims of the colored man, as in Connecticut and other States! Out on the canting hypocrites! Be not deceived by these men. If a collision occurs the government would of course be compelled to see order observed; but shoudl a war of races ever ensue, the whites would joind the whites, and the blacks join the blacks. Your most implacable enemies are to be found among the white soldiers. Their hartred towards your race seems to grow in intensity from the very moment they enter the service.