Frederick Douglass: “I am speaking mainly to colored men to-night, but I want my words to find their way to the eyes, ears, heads and hearts…”

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

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

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.