Frederick Douglass: “The responsibility of the whole enterprise rested on my shoulders.”

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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