Frederick Douglass: “I not only liked—I loved this paper, and its editor.”

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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.