Frederick Douglass: “Indeed, he may be, and often is, master and father to the same child.”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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

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.

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