Frederick Douglass: “I was in the midst of an ocean of my fellowmen, and yet a perfect stranger to every one.”

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

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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