Frederick Douglass: “You may remember that during the late war, when the South fought for the perpetuity of slavery, it usually called the…”

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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

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

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