Frederick Douglass: “The more I observed and learned the more my confidence diminished.”

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

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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