Frederick Douglass: “A man should never leave his home for a new one till he has earnestly endeavored to make his immediate surroundings…”

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

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.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.