Frederick Douglass: “The negro to-day would not be on his knees, as he is, abjectly supplicating the old master class to give him leave to…”

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

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

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

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