Frederick Douglass: “My whole future depended upon the decision of this conductor.”

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

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

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.