Frederick Douglass: “More slaves are whipped for oversleeping than for any other fault.”

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

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.