Frederick Douglass: “The only trouble is the will! the will! the will!”

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

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.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.