Frederick Douglass: “I was never more quickly or more completely put at ease in the presence of a great man, than in that of Abraham Lincoln.”

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.