Frederick Douglass: “There is no denying, for it is everywhere admitted, that the anti-slavery question is the great moral and social…”

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

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

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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