Frederick Douglass: “It was the turning-point in the conflict between freedom and slavery.”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.