"John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom……" — Frederick Douglass

John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to… - Frederick Douglass
"John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun. I could live for the slave; John Brown could die for him. The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery."

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