Frederick Douglass: “It is a more cheerful thing to be able to say I was born here and know all the people, than to say I am a stranger here…”

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

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.