Frederick Douglass: “It is a formula of Southern origin and has a strong bias against the Negro.”

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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.

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

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.