Frederick Douglass: “Than this, there was never a surrender more dishonorable, more ungrateful, or more cowardly.”

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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

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