Frederick Douglass: “Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.”

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

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

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.