Frederick Douglass: “Present organizations may perish, but the cause will go on.”

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.