Frederick Douglass: “In its boldest days slavery drew in its claws and presented a velvet paw to strangers.”

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.