Frederick Douglass: “This bread, with its ashes and bran, would disgust and choke a northern man, but it is quite liked by the slaves.”

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

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.