Frederick Douglass: “But the slave must be brutalized to keep him as a slave.”

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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