Frederick Douglass: “Nothing could have better suited the moral and humane requirements of the hour.”

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

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.