Frederick Douglass: “It is a part of a well-devised reactionary movement against the Negro as a citizen.”

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

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

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

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