Frederick Douglass: “His heart must be harder than stone, that could look upon these unmoved.”

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.