Frederick Douglass: “It has indulged in vices and crimes enough to have killed a dozen ordinary parties, and yet it lives.”

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

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

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

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.