Frederick Douglass: “The cause was good, the men engaged in it were good, the means to…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

The cause was good, the men engaged in it were good, the means to attain its triumph, good.

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Frederick Douglass

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Douglass expresses his profound conviction in the moral integrity of the abolitionist movement and its participants.

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