Frederick Douglass: “I was now living in a new world, and was wide awake to its advantages.”

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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