Frederick Douglass: “I only wish that something like the same justice and the same charity shall be shown to the Negro.”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.