Frederick Douglass: “For the present, the best representative of the slavery party in politics is the democratic party.”

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

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.