Frederick Douglass: “His eyes had in them the tenderness of motherhood, and his mouth and other features the highest perfection of a genuine…”

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.