Frederick Douglass: “Their institutions have taught them no respect for human life, and especially the life of the Negro.”

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.