Frederick Douglass: “There was no earthly inducement in the slave’s condition to incite him to labor faithfully.”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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