Frederick Douglass: “Is it not time, then, for every American to awake, and inquire into his duty with respect to this subject?”

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

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.