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The Pacific slope will be the theatre
of great enterprises that will af-
fect society, the people at the east
and of the whole country.
We too must take a part in them.
2 We are in the lump. 1 The leaven is
working and we feel the fermen-
tation. God has cast our lots -- mangled the
ways and woof of our lives
You cannot do
without any more than we can do without you, nor do we desire to get
out from among you and this
agitation that is heaving and roll-
ing around us like the surges of
the ocean. We must assist in
working out the destiny of this na-
tion and the race.

Shame upon the blindness of
those Americans who so tardily
withhold plain and simple justice
from colored citizens.

The changes that have taken
place are only the beginning of