Frederick Douglass: “I hated slavery, always, and the desire for freedom only needed a favorable breeze, to fan it into a blaze, at any…”

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

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

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

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…