Frederick Douglass: “I was now living in a new world, and was wide awake to its advantages.”

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.