Our faith in him was often taxed and strained to the uttermost, but it never failed…we were at times stunned, grieved, and greatly bewildered; but our hearts believed while they ached and bled.
About Abraham Lincoln, speech on the 21st anniversary of Lincoln's assassination (1886).
Frederick Douglass Project: Rebecca Caesar's "Douglass' Relationship with Abraham Lincoln" Essay | RBSCP[rbscp.lib.rochester.edu]