Frederick Douglass: “Anderson, but John Brown, began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.”

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.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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