Frederick Douglass: “That such an one would be permitted to escape condign punishment, is not only untenable but an insult to common sense.”

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.