Frederick Douglass: “The thought itself vexed me, and the manner in which Master Hugh received my wages, vexed me more than the original…”

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

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

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

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.