Frederick Douglass: “Fellow-citizens, we are proud to-day, and justly proud, of the prosperity and the increasing liberality of Washington.”

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

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

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

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.