Frederick Douglass: “They are under control of a foul, haggard, and damning conspiracy against reason, law, and constitution.”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.