Frederick Douglass: “Besides, if there is one thing more impossible than another, it is a position of perfect neutrality in politics.”

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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