Frederick Douglass: “A usual plan is, to make bets on a slave, that he can drink more whisky than any other; and so to induce a rivalry among…”

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

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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