Frederick Douglass: “Oh! sir, a slaveholder never appears to me so completely an agent of hell, as when I think of and look upon my dear…”

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.