Frederick Douglass: “It is a part of a well-devised reactionary movement against the Negro as a citizen.”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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

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.