Frederick Douglass: “The outspread wing of American christianity, apparently broad enough to give shelter to a perishing world, refuses to…”

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

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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