Frederick Douglass: “Against the voice of Stevens, Sumner, and Wade, and other far-seeing statesmen, the Government by whom we were…”

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.

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

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