Frederick Douglass: “All that he has is at stake, and even that which he has not is at stake also.”

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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