Frederick Douglass: “They stand before you to-day physically and mentally maimed and mutilated men.”

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

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

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

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.