Any colored man who either denies this or endeavors to disparage that party and belittle their concessions by attributing them entirely to selfish and cowardly motives brands himself as unjust, uncharitable, and ungrateful.
Douglass criticizes any colored man who undermines the Republican party's contributions to their freedom as unjust and ungrateful.
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We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.
It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.