Frederick Douglass: “Times and events have swept away these old refuges of lies.”

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

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

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.