Frederick Douglass: “The slave must be subjected to these, or he ceases to be a slave.”

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

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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