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and their families, they do their duty manfully and stand up among their fellows because they drain His approval, and are thankful that they have received so great a blessing, and through His Grace are able to work and enjoy it.

Many other people and nations are not yet free, and as you are the youngest children of freedom, so you must be taught, and try to learn what you ought to do, and how to do it.

We who come among you now are anxious that you should have, and use all your rights and privileges, but we know that children now run before they can walk, and so you had best stay where you are until you are strong enough to go anywhere; and wait patiently until you know what your rights are, and what others rights are, and what the laws are before you go wandering off into other states among a strange people. You have more rights here than you will have in other places, and can work best here where your labor is wanted, and will be paid for; and the government will protect you, as well as all others who obey the laws  and are industrious, peaceable citizens.

You are free, but your future welfare and prosperity all depend upon how you shall use your freedom.

Take good counsel there and learn to work like men who know what it is to be free.