Frederick Douglass: “Once thoroughly broken down, who is he that can repair the damage?”

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

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.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.