Frederick Douglass: “I had received many good lessons from them, and was still receiving them, and the thought of leaving them was painful…”

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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

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

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.