It is to snatch from the bosom of nature the latent facts of each individual man’s experience, and with steady hand to hold them up fresh and glowing, enforcing, with all his power, their acknowledgment and practical adoption.
Douglass describes the task of bringing to light the inherent truths of human experience and compelling their recognition and application.
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But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.
We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.
His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.