I am glad, and I know that you are glad, that there was one man on that bench who had the mind and heart to be as true to liberty in this its day as was the old Supreme Court of slavery in its day.
Douglass expresses gratitude for a judge who upheld the principles of liberty, contrasting it with the historical complicity of the Supreme Court in supporting slavery.
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