Frederick Douglass: “By plunging them into exhausting depths of drunkenness and dissipation, this effect is almost certain to follow.”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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

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.