Not from the Heaven of Peace amid the morning stars, but from the hell of war--out of the tempest and whirlwind of warlike passions, mingled with deadly hate and a spirit of revenge; it came, not so much as a boon to us as a blast to the enemy.
This quote illustrates the harsh realities of war and the complicated nature of freedom's arrival.
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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.
This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.