Frederick Douglass: “Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken?”

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.