Frederick Douglass: “They were ready to hear, and ready to act when a feasible plan should be proposed.”

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

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.