Frederick Douglass: “I was only a slave; my wishes were nothing, and my happiness was the sport of my masters.”

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.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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.