Frederick Douglass: “But experience has taught us that it is sometimes wise and necessary to have more than two witnesses to bring out the…”

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.

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…