Frederick Douglass: “It is this: Within the bounds of his just earnings, I hold that the slave is fully justified in helping himself to the…”

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

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

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.