Frederick Douglass: “For instance, the slaveholders not only like to see the slave drink of his own accord, but will adopt various plans to…”

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

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.