Frederick Douglass: “Woe to the slaveholder when he undertakes to hinder or to prevent the operation of these electric conductors.”

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

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…

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