Frederick Douglass: “To assume that they are free from these evils simply because they have changed their laws is to assume what is utterly…”

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.