The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

