Frederick Douglass: “It is due to the folly of endeavouring to put the new wine of liberty in the old bottles of slavery.”

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.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.