Frederick Douglass: “What though for the moment the hand of violence strikes down the negro’s rights in the South, those rights will revive…”

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.