Frederick Douglass: “They were as true as steel, and no band of brothers could have been more loving.”

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

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

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

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