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Compare Sam Ward with the only black millionaire in New York, I mean Jerry Hamilton; and it is plain that manhood is a 'nobler ideal' than money. The former has illustrated his people and his country, the other has fled from his identity, (to use the elegant phraseology of Ethiop,) like a dog with a tin kettle tied to his tail! There is, no doubt, dearest Ethiop, that in the language of Scripture, you are 'black, but comely.'
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- ↑ Bernstein, Iver (4 January 1990). The New York City Draft Riots:Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. Oxford University Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-19-992343-4 . Retrieved 29 July 2013.
- ↑ Shane White, Prince of Darkness, The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire, St Martins Press, 2015
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