Frederick Douglass: “Old as the everlasting hills; immovable as the throne of God; and certain as the purposes of eternal power, against all…”

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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

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