Frederick Douglass: “Remove the dreadful scourge—the plaited thong—the galling fetter—the accursed chain—and let the slaveholder rely solely…”

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

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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