Frederick Douglass: “It shows what can be done against wrong in the world, without the aid of armies on the earth or of angels in the sky.”

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

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

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.