Frederick Douglass: “The best cure for the evil is to throw open other avenues and activities to them.”

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.