Frederick Douglass: “Rebel rule is now nearly complete in many states, and it is gradually capturing the nation’s Congress.”

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

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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