Frederick Douglass: “Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.”

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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

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

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