Frederick Douglass: “He is an owner of the marble grandeur which he beholds about him,--as much so as any of the forty millions of this great…”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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