Frederick Douglass: “Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity.”

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.

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.

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