Frederick Douglass: “It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.”

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.