Frederick Douglass: “Howard University and Wayland Seminary, placed on heights commanding beautiful views of Washington, are among the…”

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

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

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.