Frederick Douglass: “That threat is now being sternly pursued and may yet be fully realised.”

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

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.