Frederick Douglass: “Let the political parties cease to palter in a double sense, and live up to the noble declarations we find in their…”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.