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[illegible] seems to me that this is the worthiest of all public charities at present - now is the time of trial for these freed people, this is the transition state from bondage to Freedom. How we re joice to write that word. in it is culminated the efforts of the last half-century. I say culminated, for that has been the Anti-Slavery watch- word yet there is still another work following closely before this not yet [con???minated]: I mean the work of elevating a degraded race: This many of us can engage in: and with patience accomplish much. But I have not yet spoken