Frederick Douglass: “One thing must be admitted, and that is that the power and vitality of the Democratic party have been vastly underrated.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.