Notwithstanding,” thought I, “the many resolutions and prayers I have made, in behalf of freedom, I am, this first day of the year 1836, still a slave, still wandering in the depths of spirit-devouring thralldom.
Reflecting on the new year, Douglass laments his continued enslavement despite his fervent prayers and resolutions for freedom.
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It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.
But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.