Frederick Douglass: “Let us look at the first object sought for by the slavery party of the country, viz: the suppression of anti slavery…”

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

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

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