Frederick Douglass: “They awaken the sympathies for the slave, in which antislavery principles take root, grow, and flourish.”

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

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

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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