Frederick Douglass: “There is no standing still for anybody in this world.”

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.