Frederick Douglass: “He only blunders when asked to lose sight of himself.”

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

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

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

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