Frederick Douglass: “I am not such a fool as to decry a city in which I have invested my money and made my permanent residence.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.