The journal was valuable while it lasted, and the experiment was full of instruction to me, which has to some extent been heeded, for I have kept well out of newspaper undertakings since.
Douglass concludes his account of a failed newspaper venture, emphasizing the valuable lessons learned from the experience.
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It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.