"Our Presidents, Governors, Generals and Secretaries are calling, with almost frantic vehemence, for men.-"Men! men! send us men!" they scream, or the cause of the Union is gone...and yet these very officers, representing the people and the Government, steadily, and persistently refuse to receive the very class of men which have a deeper interest in the defeat and humiliation of the rebels than all others."Frederick Douglass, 18637)
What cause is Douglass advocating in this statement?
A) the abolition of slavery
B) the creation of an alliance between the Union and Great Britain
C) allowing African American men to serve as soldiers in the Union army
D) allowing an exchange of prisoners between the Union and the Confederacy