Frederick Douglass

If they cannot rise to the dignity of white men, they show that they can fall to the degradation of black men.

Our old employments by which we have been accustomed to gain a livelihood are gradually slipping from our hands: every hour sees us elbowed out of some employment to make room for some newly arrived emigrant from the Emerald Isle, whose…

The Irish, who, at home, readily sympathize with the oppressed everywhere, are instantly taught when they step upon our soil to hate and despise the negro.

For of all places in the world where an anti-slavery man needs the confidence and encouragement of his friends, I take Washington--the citadel of slavery--to be that place.

The whole movement on the part of the States bears unmistakable evidence of having one origin, of emanating from one head, and urged forward by one power.

They dared to ask them to unite with them in a war upon free speech, upon conscience, and to drive the Almighty presence from the councils of the nation.

The key-stone to the arch of this grand union of forces of the slave party is the so-called Compromise of 1850.

Well, the head of the slave power being in power it is natural that the pro-slavery elements should cluster around his administration, and that is rapidly being done.

For the present the best representative of the slavery party is the Democratic party.

It is evident that there is in this country a purely slavery party, a party which exists for no other earthly purpose but to promote the interest of slavery.

In a few simple words he had embodied the thought of the loyal nation, and indicated the character fit to lead and guide the country amid perils present and to come.

No wonder that the friends of freedom saw in this plain man of Illinois the proper standard-bearer of all the moral and political forces which could be united and wielded against the slave power.