ABSTRACT
Shall the Negro stand a disinterested spectator? No! We cannot, as a race, afford to be absent from the American Centennial, where the wisest in scientific and religious knowledge; the best in philanthropy; the great in power; the celebrated in art; and the famous of this age will be gathered; God grant that we may join in this august assemblage of nations, not as slaves, vassels or servants, but as men.1
