Frederick Douglass: “No man fails, or can fail who so grandly gives himself and all he has to a righteous cause.”

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

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

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.