Frederick Douglass: “Americans have too little memory for good or bad political conduct.”

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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