Frederick Douglass: “It made national pelf more important and prominent than national purity.”

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.