Frederick Douglass: “A white man has but to blacken his face and commit a crime to have some Negro lynched in his stead.”

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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