In any other country such a frightful crime as the Carrolton massacre--in any other country than this a scream would have gone up from all quarters of the land for the arrest and punishment of these cold-blooded murderers.
Douglass criticizes the lack of national outrage following the Carrolton massacre, highlighting a double standard in justice.
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The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.
I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.