He does not yet know that we have learned what a glorious thing it is to die for a principle, and especially when that principle is liberty.

He does not yet know how the genius of his institutions has taken hold of our very souls.

In the days of our enslavement we did not seem to him to be much disturbed about physical freedom.

During the whole period of our enslavement we made only two slight insurrections.
"When at last the war came to set us free we stayed in the field and fed the men who were reddening the soil with their blood in a deadly struggle to keep us in bondage forever.

We remained at home and defended the helpless wives and children of men, who if they had been at home would have counted it no crime to have ignored all our family ties and scattered husbands and wives, mothers and children as ruthlessly as the autumn winds do the falling leaves.
"The Anglo-Saxon has seen the eyes of the Negro following the American eagle in its glorious flight.