Frederick Douglass: “Never mind, honey—better day comin’,” was even then a solace, a cheering consolation to me in my troubles.”

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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