Frederick Douglass: “We should all see the folly and madness of attempting to accomplish with a part what could only be done with the united…”

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

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

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.