"I think people talk to much about fighting for the negroe, for my part what I believed to be the curses of slavery has become knowledge and instead of thinking les of a negroe I have sadly learned to think them better than many wight men that hold responsible positions. Why blame the negroe for what he can not help? Why speak of him with scorn and contempt when does all he is alowed to do, god knows that a soldier life is hard, but I do not wish to exchange mine for that of a negroes bond or free, as for liberty I have all that a soldier could expect and ceretainly feel as free as a king. I agreed to obey orders and therefore no one is to blame but myself if I do not like them. Can a slave say the same?"
M.P. Larry
Letters of Meschack P. Larry, Maine soldier, Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME, February 16, 1863.
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"The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
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