Frederick Douglass: “Liberty, not slavery, is now the autocrat of the Republic.”

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

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

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.