Frederick Douglass: “The old slave quarter that had before sheltered them, and the fields that had yielded them corn, were now denied them.”

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

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

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

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.