Frederick Douglass: “It is said that those who live on the banks of Niagara neither hear its thunder nor shudder at its overwhelming power.”

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

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

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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