Frederick Douglass: “One thing must be admitted, and that is that the power and vitality of the Democratic party have been vastly underrated.”

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.