Frederick Douglass: “To him such a community was not more sacred than a band of robbers: it was the right of any one to assault it by day or…”

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

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.

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.