[1] Extracts from an address delivered at the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race, Philadelphia, Pa., December 11, 1818.
[2] Extracts from a lecture delivered at the Stuyvesant Institute, New York, for the benefit of the Colored Orphan Asylum, February 26, 1841.
[3] A speech delivered in 1846, on the anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Liberia.
[4] Extract from an oration delivered by Frederick Douglass at Rochester, N. Y., July 5, 1852.
[5] Speech of Charles H. Langston before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, May 12, 1859. Delivered when about to be sentenced for rescuing a man from slavery.
[6] Extracts from a speech delivered in the House of Representatives, January 6, 1874.
[7] Lieber on Civil Liberty, page 25.
[8] Hamilton's History of the American Republic, Vol. I, page 70.
[9] A speech delivered in the House of Representatives, February 3, 1875.
[10] From "The Life of A. Dumas," by Arthur E. Davidson, (p. 356).