Frederick Douglass: “Every dollar you lay up, represents one day’s independence, one day of rest and security in the future.”

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

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

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

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.