Frederick Douglass: “I can, therefore, fondly and proudly ascribe to her an earnest love of knowledge.”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.