Frederick Douglass: “The contrast between the old time of slavery and the new dispensation of liberty looms upon us on every hand.”

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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

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