Frederick Douglass: “Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.”

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.

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.