Frederick Douglass: “A man’s head will not long remain wrong, when his heart is right.”

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.