Frederick Douglass: “There were pride, pomp, and luxury on the one hand, servility, dejection, and misery on the other.”

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.