For who is there so cold that a nation's sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs?....I am not that man. -- Douglass continues his ethical appeal by shifting the focus to himself. He assures his audience that he would prefer to celebrate this cause with them. Despite the atrocities perpetrated on his people, he is not "so cold that a nation's sympathy could not warm him." He is willing to praise his audience. But because they have not extended freedom to his race, he cannot be that man. He can only blame. The epideitic nature of his discourse will become even more apparent as he delivers his speech.