Frederick Douglass: “My second ground for doubt and denial is based upon what I know of the character and antecedents of the men and women…”

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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