Frederick Douglass: “Its reiteration and agitation only serves to fan the flame of popular prejudice and to add insult to to injury.”

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

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

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.