I asked him the question: 'Is it true that there are a considerable number of slaves who would prefer to remain in their present condition to becoming free ?' "'Nebber see any such niggers, massa,' he answered, shaking his head decisively.

'We all want to be free.

My old massa treated me kindly, but I'd a left him any minute to be my own man.' "I hope the time will soon come, when, from Canada to the Gulf, there will not be a single black who is not his own man.

We in the army are doing what we can, but we must be backed up by those who stay at home.
My own feeling is that slavery has received its death-blow.

It may continue to live for some years, but it has fallen from its pomp and pride of place.