"The American people are a nation of liars."

"The fact is, the people of the South are not more in favor of slavery, than the people of the North are opposed to it."

"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…"

"Though Mr. Lincoln shared the prejudices of his white fellow-countrymen against the Negro, it is hardly necessary to say that in his heart of hearts he loathed and hated slavery . . . Viewed from the …"

"I am not for Negro equality, but for the equality of all men."