Frederick Douglass: “Only a few years before, any colored man was forbidden by law to carry a United States mail bag from one post-office to…”

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

But whether it shall come late or come soon will depend mainly upon ourselves.

A poverty-stricken class will be an ignorant and despised class, and no amount of sentiment can make it otherwise.

Taking all the circumstances into consideration, the colored people have no reason to despair.