Frederick Douglass: “I canvassed with Henry and John the subject of slavery, and dashed against it the condemning brand of God’s eternal…”

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.