Frederick Douglass: “Let the Northern press and pulpit proclaim the gospel of truth and justice against the war now being made upon the…”

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

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.