Frederick Douglass: “No people ever had a more lively sense of the value of faithful endeavor to serve their interests than they.”

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.