Frederick Douglass: “Depend upon it, if the Democratic party does not avail itself of the colored man’s support the Republican party…”

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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