Frederick Douglass: “I felt that I had a duty to perform—and that was, to labor and suffer with the oppressed in my native land.”

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

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