Frederick Douglass: “It did not do as well by us as Russia did by her serfs, or Pharaoh did by the Hebrews.”

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.