Frederick Douglass: “It proves the justice and practicability of Immediate Emancipation.”

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

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