Frederick Douglass: “We are either rising or falling, advancing or retreating.”

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part 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.