I have shown from the very constitution of a mob, the slight causes by which it may be created, and the sentiment by which it is impelled, it cannot be depended upon for either truth or justice.
Douglass critiques the mob mentality, asserting that mobs cannot be relied upon for justice or truth.
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True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.