Frederick Douglass: “The party which takes the negro on its side will triumph.”

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.

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

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