Frederick Douglass: “Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.”

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

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

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.