Frederick Douglass: “It is no longer local but national; no longer confined to the South but has invaded the North.”

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.