Frederick Douglass: “Their institutions have taught them no respect for human life, and especially the life of the Negro.”

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

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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