Frederick Douglass: “They could always shoot, stab, hang and burn the Negro, without any such remorse or shame as other men would feel after…”

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

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

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.