Frederick Douglass: “It is the misfortune of the coloured people of this country that the sins of the few are visited more or less upon the…”

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

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

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

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