Frederick Douglass: “There is no question in the mind of any unprejudiced person that the Negro is capable of making a good mechanic.”

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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

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

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