Frederick Douglass: “All, of course, cannot leave that section, and ought not; but some can, and the condition of those who must remain will…”

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

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

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.