Mr. Celestine Edwards, a colored man, in seconding the proposition, maintained that war had never ended anything so as to permanently satisfy both the conquered and the conquerer. The Southerners of America had never been satisfied with the defeat they had sustained at the hands of the Northerners and the loss of their property in Negroes. This had been a thorn in their flesh for years, and he held that they would never succeed in ameliorating the conditions under which his race labored until the remnant of the old Abolitionists of America began the work where they had left it off, when the
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