Frederick Douglass: “I had felt myself doomed to drag this chain and this block through life.”

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.