Frederick Douglass: “I would not make suffrage more exclusive but more inclusive.”

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.