Frederick Douglass: “Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.