[Fort Brown, Texas, 1856]
In this enlightened age there are few, I believe, but will
acknowledge that slavery, as an institution, is a moral and political evil in
any country. I think it, however, a greater evil to the white man than to the
black race, and while my feelings are strongly interested in behalf of the
latter, my sympathies are stronger for the former. The blacks are immeasurably
better off here than in Africa, morally, socially and physically. . . . While
we see the course of the final abolition of slavery is onward and we give it
the aid of our prayers and all justifiable means in our power, we must leave
the progress as well as the result in His hands who sees the end, ... and with
whom a thousand years are but as a single day.
SOURCE: Randolph Harrison McKim, The Soul of Lee, p. 20
