Frederick Douglass: “The bloody harvest of Harper's Ferry was ripened by the heat and moisture of merciless bondage of more than two hundred…”

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…

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

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.