Frederick Douglass: “In the midst of human brothers, and yet more fearful of them than of hungry wolves!”

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 was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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

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