No man, who in his hour of extremest need, when on his way to meet an ignominious death, could so forget himself as to stop and kiss a little child, one of the hated race for whom he was about to die, could by any possibility fail.
Douglass highlights the humanity and courage of John Brown in the face of death.
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It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
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