Frederick Douglass: “His words were full of holy fire, and straight to the point.”

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.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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