Frederick Douglass: “They attended to the mint, anise, and cummin of politics, but omitted the weightier matters of the law--judgment, mercy…”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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

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