Frederick Douglass: “The very presence of this man Gore was painful, and I shunned him as I would have shunned a rattlesnake.”

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.