Frederick Douglass: “Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters.”

The battle against popular prejudice will have been fought and won, and in common with all other races and colors, we shall have an equal chance in the race of life.

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

This part of our destiny is in our own hands.

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.