Frederick Douglass: “It is the very essence of justice, liberty, and love.”

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.