Frederick Douglass: “Public opinion seldom differs very widely from public practice.”

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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

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