Frederick Douglass: “Freeland, I am indebted to the genial temper and ardent friendship of my brother slaves.”

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

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

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

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.