Frederick Douglass: “It was enough to chill the blood and stiffen the hair of an ordinary man to hear him talk.”

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.