Frederick Douglass: “The right to take my earnings, was the right of the robber.”

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

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

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

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