Frederick Douglass: “I felt a delight in circumventing the tyrants, and in blessing the victims of their curses.”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.