Frederick Douglass: “Why are some people slaves and others masters?”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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