Frederick Douglass: “I admit that there are individual slaveholders less cruel and barbarous than is allowed by law; but these form the…”

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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

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