Frederick Douglass: “I admit the charge, but deny that nature, race, or color has anything to do with the fact.”

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

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

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

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