Frederick Douglass: “The Irishman has not only the liberty to emigrate from his country, but he has liberty at home.”

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.

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

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.