Frederick Douglass: “The change is too great and the period for it too brief.”

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

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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