Frederick Douglass: “I have on my back the marks of the lash; I have four sisters and one brother now under the galling chain.”

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

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.

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

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