Frederick Douglass: “He began moderately by finding excuses for Covey, and ended with a full justification of him, and a passionate…”

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.