Frederick Douglass: “Two hundred and twenty years ago the Negro was made a religious problem, one which gave our white forefathers about as…”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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.

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