Frederick Douglass: “The deadly upas, root and branch, leaf and fibre, body and sap, must be utterly destroyed.”

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

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.

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.