Frederick Douglass: “Why, we have slavery made part of the religion of the land.”

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

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

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

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