Frederick Douglass: “The office of overseer took this raw material of vulgarity and brutality, and stamped it as a distinct class in southern…”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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

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

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.