Frederick Douglass: “Besides, innocence does not hesitate to come to the rescue of justice, and need not even in this case.”

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.