Frederick Douglass: “Covey was a tyrant, and a cowardly one, withal.”

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 anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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

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