Frederick Douglass: “The color line meets him everywhere, and in a measure shuts him out from all respectable and profitable trades and…”

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

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

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