All that had been done towards suppressing the rebellion and abolishing slavery would have proved of no avail, and the final settlement between the two sections of the Republic, touching slavery and the right of secession, would have been left to tear and rend the country again at no distant future.
Douglass warns of the dire consequences for the nation and the cause of abolition if the Democratic party were to win the 1864 election.
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Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
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.
We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.
It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.