Frederick Douglass: “One flash from the heart-supplied intellect of Harriet Beecher Stowe could light a million camp fires in front of the…”

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

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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