Frederick Douglass: “What is its history? and what is its destiny?”

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

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.