Frederick Douglass: “I felt myself surrounded as by a pack of fiends, fresh from perdition.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.