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I speak for all of us who could not afford to go to Duke, and would not have, even if we could have afforded it.

No, our love for this place is based on the fact that it is, as it was meant to be, the University of the people.

I was born in South Carolina. My grandfather was stolen from Africa.

I was going to take a longer holiday than he thought for.

But thanks be to God that those days have passed, and we now live under the sun of liberty.

I WAS born in Columbia, South Carolina.

My only desire has been to do good.

When the yoke was taken from my neck I went to school in Columbia, S. C., awhile, then to Charleston.

My life had not been wholly uneventful; I had been of an observant turn of mind from my youth.

The place of my birth and the conditions under which I was born are matters over which, of course, I had no control.

I gave my services willingly for four years and three months without receiving a dollar.

I cannot express the pleasure I have had in sitting down, and recalling the incidents of my childhood and youth.

I always had plenty to do. Fast as one child would be walkin', then I would have another one to nurse.

I was very happy to know my efforts were successful in camp, and also felt grateful for the appreciation of my services.

It does not treat of campaigns, army maneuvers, or plans of battles, but only of the daily life of a common soldier, and of such things as fell under his limited observation.

A defect, from which the race suffers much, arises out of the fact that so little effort has been made to record and preserve the creditable history which the race has already made.

Look at the mighty Mississippi the Father of Waters—it rises in the nameless snows of North America—runs through twenty-three degrees of latitude, all our own soil, and washes the sides of ten young, flourishing, and powerful States; its tributaries drain the rains that fall in sight of the Atlantic and meet the streams that flow into the Pacific upon the summit of the Rocky Mountains—its broad tides bear on their buoyant bosom the clothing of half of the world, and the fertile valleys, which spread out from its ample banks are capable of producing food for the population of the whole earth for a thousand years to come.