Knowing all this, they ought to know also, that it is a shame and an outrage upon common sense and fair dealing to hold him or his suffrage responsible for any disorder that may reign in the Southern States.
Douglass criticizes the unfairness of holding Black citizens accountable for societal issues in the South.
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Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.
His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.
He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.