Frederick Douglass: “Yet I must say that there is no analogy between the two cases.”

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.