Frederick Douglass: “Among a mass of nonsense and wild frolic, once in a while a sharp hit is given to the meanness of slaveholders.”

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

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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