Frederick Douglass: “My discontent grew upon me, and I was on the look-out for means of escape.”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.