Frederick Douglass: “If there is one position in life more despicable in the eyes of man, and more condemned by nature than another, it is…”

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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