Frederick Douglass: “I have found them, almost invariably, the vilest, meanest and basest of their class.”

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.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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