Frederick Douglass: “Unjust as this regulation was, it did not trouble us much; we had fared much harder before.”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.