Frederick Douglass: “I felt like a besieged city at news that its defenders had fallen at its gates.”

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.