Frederick Douglass: “Its fall would be a blow to freedom and progress throughout the world.”

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

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

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

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.