Frederick Douglass: “When at last the truth began to dawn upon the administration that the negro might be made useful to loyalty, as well as…”

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

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

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.