Frederick Douglass: “From the first, I, for one, saw in this war the end of slavery; and truth requires me to say that my interest in the…”

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

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.