Frederick Douglass: “That understanding is that the land must be kept in the hands of the old master class.”

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

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.