Frederick Douglass: “Coming generations in this country will applaud the spirit of this much abused republican friend of freedom.”

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

The old slave quarter that had before sheltered them, and the fields that had yielded them corn, were now denied them.

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

The conditions of success are universal and unchangeable.