Frederick Douglass: “Let the political parties cease to palter in a double sense, and live up to the noble declarations we find in their…”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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