Frederick Douglass: “To those with whom I had been in agreement and in sympathy, I came to be in opposition.”

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

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

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

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