Frederick Douglass: “Nevertheless, there is that within which ever pleads for the right and the just.”

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

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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

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