Frederick Douglass: “The case only needs to be stated; it carries its own refutation with it.”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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