Frederick Douglass: “He is a wiser man than I am who can tell how low the moral sentiment of the Republic may yet fall.”

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.