Frederick Douglass: “The color line meets him everywhere, and in a measure shuts him out from all respectable and profitable trades and…”

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

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

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.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.