Frederick Douglass: “We can get at the throat of treason and slavery through the State of Massachusetts.”

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

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.