Frederick Douglass: “To those with whom I had been in agreement and in sympathy, I came to be in opposition.”

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

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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

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