Frederick Douglass: “In reconstructing the institutions of these shattered and overthrown States, Congress should begin with a clean slate…”

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.