It is a pleasing circumstance that such a body of men has risen in America, and whilst we hurl our thunders against her slavers, let us make a distinction between those who advocate slavery and those who oppose it.
Douglass acknowledges the emergence of anti-slavery advocates in America while calling for a distinction between supporters and opponents of slavery.
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We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.
The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.
The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.