Frederick Douglass: “What he said on this day showed a deeper moral conviction against slavery than I had even seen before in anything spoken…”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.