Frederick Douglass: “Our countrymen in chains, The whip on woman’s shrinking flesh, Our soil yet reddening with the stains Caught from her…”

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

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

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