Frederick Douglass: “The peculiar feature of his government was that of whipping slaves in advance of deserving it.”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.