Frederick Douglass: “This excuse, it is needless to say, is contemptible and hypocritical.”

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

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

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

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.