Frederick Douglass: “I now forgot my roots, and remembered my pledge to stand up in my own defense.”

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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

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

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.