In Scotland, too, renowned in her struggles for liberty by the heroic deeds of Wallace and Bruce, and his own great prototype Douglass, a land illustrious in poetic associations of Burns the ploughman poet, and Walter Scott of Abbotsford – there from the elite of Edinburgh and Glasgow, as also the peasantry of Loch Katrine, ‘O’er hill and dale, / By the bonnie highland heather,’ in contrast with the awards of Republican America, Frederick Douglass was honored, as the language of Scotia's own bard proclaimed, ‘A man for a’ that.’

From William Cooper Nell's introduction to FD, ‘Reception of Frederick Douglass at the Belknap-Street Church, Boston, 3 May 1847’, as reported in the Liberator, 21 May 1847