Frederick Douglass: “Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.”

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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.

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.