Frederick Douglass: “To those who have taken some risks and encountered hardships in the flight from bondage, I can say I too have endured…”

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.