Frederick Douglass: Some thought we had in Mr. Lincoln the nerve and decision of an Oliver Cromwell, but the result shows we have merely a continuation of the Pierces and the Buchanans, who will grovel before the foul and withering curse of slavery.
Lincoln's inaugural address inaugurates Civil…
Frederick Douglass: Some thought we had in Mr. Lincoln the nerve and decision of an Oliver Cromwell, but the result shows we have merely a continuation of the Pierces and the Buchanans, who will grovel before the foul and withering curse of slavery.