Frederick Douglass: “If cast down, I have been exalted; and the latter experience has, after all, far exceeded the former.”

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.