Frederick Douglass: “Has any one of our Republican Presidents, since Grant, earnestly endeavored to establish justice in the South?”

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

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.