I could not always curb my moral indignation for the perpetrators of slaveholding villainy, long enough for a circumstantial statement of the facts which I felt almost everybody must know.
From his autobiography, explaining his struggle to maintain a factual narrative when his moral indignation against slavery was so strong.
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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.
Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.