Frederick Douglass: “To have done so would have been like inviting a clean man to touch pitch, a humane man to witness an execution, a…”

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.

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

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.