“Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
— Abraham Lincoln, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VIII, “Speech to One Hundred Fortieth Indiana Regiment” (March 17, 1865), p. 361.
Reading further in Frederick Douglass’ memoir, I found him to be strangely unmoved by slaveholders’ complaints about the infringement of their freedom and property rights pressed upon them by the abolitionists.