Volume 12 — HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT FOR COLORED FELLOW-CITIZENS.
Reading edition
Letter to the Editor of “The Leader,” in Charleston, S. C., May, 1865.
The following brief note appeared in the first number of The Leader, a weekly paper which began at Charleston, 1865.
I trust that you will do everything possible to arouse hope and encouragement in the colored people. Let them know that their friends will stand by them. All white persons who have any regard for the Declaration of Independence ought to unite in favor of its principles, and insist that they shall be made the foundation of the new order of things. Courage! the cause cannot fail.
Believe me, dear Sir, faithfully yours,
Charles Sumner.