Frederick Douglass: “Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.