Any colored man who either denies this or endeavors to disparage that party and belittle their concessions by attributing them entirely to selfish and cowardly motives brands himself as unjust, uncharitable, and ungrateful.
Douglass criticizes any colored man who undermines the Republican party's contributions to their freedom as unjust and ungrateful.
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We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.