Frederick Douglass: “Neither to the wicked, nor to the idler, is there any solid peace: “Troubled, like the restless sea.”

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

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

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

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…