Frederick Douglass: “They are, therefore, rapidly sinking all other questions to nothing, compared with the increasing demands of slavery.”

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.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.