Frederick Douglass: “I therefore resolved to join the Methodist church in New Bedford, and to enjoy the spiritual advantage of public…”

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

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

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.