Among these Frederick Douglass was especially and richly endowed not only with the strength but with the graces of speech; and for many years, from the stump and from the platform, he exerted a wide and beneficent influence upon popular opinion.
Blaine highlights Frederick Douglass's exceptional oratory skills and influence in the abolition movement.
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But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
The wonder excited by the raising of the vast army which saved the Union from destruction was even surpassed by the wonder excited by its prompt and peaceful dissolution.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
The haste with which the question was brought to a decision can hardly be justified, and is a striking illustration of the intense party-feeling which had been engendered by the war.
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