Frederick Douglass: “Meanwhile, I resolved to add to my educational attainments the art of writing.”

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

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

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

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