Frederick Douglass: “Besides, innocence does not hesitate to come to the rescue of justice, and need not even in this case.”

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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