Those of our number now posing as Independents are doing better service to the Democratic party under the Independent mask than they could do if they came out honestly for the Democratic party.
Douglass critiques those who claim to be politically independent while actually serving the interests of the Democratic Party.
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For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.
This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.