Frederick Douglass: “It was the same old party in a new dress, and time has shown that it was as full of life and power as ever.”

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

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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.