Frederick Douglass: “We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries, and cradle-plunderers for church members.”

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.

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

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.