Frederick Douglass: “I warn him that, in such an event, a spirit will go forth in their midst, more to be dreaded than the most appalling…”

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.

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.