"The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

"I would rather be a free man and a poor one, than a rich slave."

"Prejudice against color is stronger north than south; it hangs around my neck like a heavy weight."

"Abraham Lincoln was not, in the fullest sense of the word, either our man or our model. In his interests, in his associations, in his habits of thought, and in his prejudices, he was a white man. He w…"

"Should a slave, when assaulted, but raise his hand in self defense, the white assaulting party is fully justified by southern, or Maryland, public opinion, in shooting the slave down."