Frederick Douglass: “The Republican party is converted into a party of money, rather than a party of humanity and justice.”

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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