Frederick Douglass: “This condition of things is too flagrant and notorious to require specifications or proof.”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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