If I have pushed my example too prominently for the good taste of my Caucasian readers I beg them to remember that I have written in part for the encouragement of a class whose aspirations need the stimulus of success.
In his autobiography, Douglass explains that his prominent self-narration aims to inspire and encourage African Americans.
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We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.
We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.