Frederick Douglass: “This is and must be practically the white man’s government.”

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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.