Frederick Douglass: “We must never forget that victory to the rebellion meant death to the republic.”

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.