The cholera was then on its way to this country, and I remember thinking that God was angry with the white people because of their slaveholding wickedness, and therefore his judgments were abroad in the land.
Douglass recalls his youthful belief that the cholera epidemic was a divine judgment against white people for the wickedness of slaveholding.
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The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.
The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.
It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.