Johnson told me that there was nothing in the laws or constitution of Massachusetts that would prevent a colored man from being governor of the State, if the people should see fit to elect him.
Douglass shares a conversation about the potential for Black leadership in Massachusetts, highlighting the state's progressive laws.
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For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.
Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.
The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.