Frederick Douglass: “The songs of the slaves represented their sorrows, rather than their joys.”

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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