Frederick Douglass: “Great and terrible as have been its ravages in the past, it now seems to be increasing, not only in the number of its…”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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