Frederick Douglass: “Just God and holy! is that church which lends Strength to the spoiler thine?”

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

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