Frederick Douglass: “That such an one would be permitted to escape condign punishment, is not only untenable but an insult to common sense.”

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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

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

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.