Frederick Douglass: “I am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery.”

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

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

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 laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.