Frederick Douglass: “On the wharves, I saw industry without bustle, labor without noise, and heavy toil without the whip.”

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.

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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.