Frederick Douglass: “Thus twice, in one short day, I escaped death by the merest chance.”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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.

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