Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling in the nation must be quickened, the conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed: and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.