Frederick Douglass: “I undertake to say that this orderly arrangement and periodicity of excuses are significant.”

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.