Frederick Douglass: “But who cares now for the citizenship of any American Republican, black or white, in Mississippi or South Carolina?”

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.