Frederick Douglass: “A bad law is all the sooner repealed by being executed, and error is sooner dispelled by exposure than by silence.”

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.