[June 10, 1861.]
My Dear Mrs. Hillard:
It is so many thousand soldiers; so many million negroes;
and so many hundred millions of dollars. My mind is confused with it all, but I
trust we shall live through this distracted condition of affairs and see blue
sky again.
There was a man who lived in Medford, who was called Bill
Hall. He traded with the West Indies, and it was “molasses and niggers” and
'niggers and molasses;' and he did not feel quite sure which was which; but he
had an idea that if the niggers were liberated he should lose his molasses.
There are a good many like him in the city of Boston, but the time is
approaching when they will be obliged to discriminate between negroes and
molasses, and recognize that the negro is a man and not a kind of merchandise.
Yours faithfully,
George L. Stearns.
SOURCE: Preston Stearns, The Life and Public
Services of George Luther Stearns, p. 250
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