Frederick Douglass: “Not even the character of a great political organization can be changed by a new platform.”

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.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.