Frederick Douglass: “His life was devoted to planning and perpetrating the grossest deceptions.”

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

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

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.