Frederick Douglass: “Their poverty kept them ignorant and their ignorance kept them degraded.”

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.