Frederick Douglass: “I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”

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

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

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.