Frederick Douglass: “He could threaten the law-breakers and murderers of the West with the…”

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He could threaten the law-breakers and murderers of the West with the sword of the nation, why not the South?

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass questions why the federal government does not use its power to protect African Americans in the South as it does in the West.

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Frederick Douglass: “He could threaten the law-breakers and murderers of the West with the sword of the nation, why not the South?”