Frederick Douglass: “The result shows that neither the past good conduct of the Republican party nor the past bad conduct of the Democratic…”

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

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

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.