Frederick Douglass: “It belongs to us; and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered with shame, we cannot but…”

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

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.