Frederick Douglass: “He has as little to do with the cause of the Southern trouble as he has with its cure.”

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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

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

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.