Frederick Douglass: “The very presence of this man Gore was painful, and I shunned him as I would have shunned a rattlesnake.”

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.