Frederick Douglass: “It even pleads the cause of the known murderer on the day of his execution, and calls society half criminal when, in…”

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

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

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

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.