Frederick Douglass: “If lynch law is in any case condemned by them, it is only condemned in one breath and excused in another.”

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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

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

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.