Frederick Douglass: “The name of Abraham Lincoln was near and dear to our hearts in the darkest and most perilous hours of the Republic.”

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.

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

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.