Frederick Douglass: “It is the proposition to colonize the coloured people of America in Africa, or somewhere else.”

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

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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