There was a threat made long ago by an American statesman that the whole body of legislation enacted for the protection of American liberty and to secure the results of the war for the Union, should be blotted from the national statute book.
Douglass recalls a historical threat to dismantle protections for American liberty post-Civil War.
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He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.
It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.