Frederick Douglass: “I believe there have been no more such threats, and should there be hereafter, I doubt not that death would be the…”

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

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.