Frederick Douglass: “Times and events have swept away these old refuges of lies.”

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

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.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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