Frederick Douglass: “The time for compromises was gone--the armed hosts of freedom stood face to face over the chasm of a broken Union--and…”

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.