Great changes in the relations of mankind can never come, without evils analogous to those which have attended the emancipation and enfranchisement of the colored people of the United States.
From his autobiography, discussing the inevitable difficulties accompanying major societal transformations like emancipation.
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True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.