Frederick Douglass: “If with the latter, what are you prepared to do and dare in their behalf?”

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

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

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

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