Frederick Douglass: “In this capital of the nation California is equal to Virginia, and, as Webster said of Bunker Hill, “Wherever else we…”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.