Frederick Douglass: “The practice, from week to week, of openly robbing me of all my earnings, kept the nature and character of slavery…”

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.