Frederick Douglass: “It has a natural, an inevitable tendency to brutalize every noble faculty of man.”

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

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

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

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