Frederick Douglass: “The fact is, I never see much use in fighting, unless there is a reasonable probability of whipping somebody.”

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.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.