Frederick Douglass: “Starvation and death stared him in the face and marked him for their victim.”

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

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

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

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