Frederick Douglass: “Without the dissemination of this belief it would never have had the confidence of the people as it did nor have secured…”

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.