Frederick Douglass: “I can appeal to them, as strongly by their regard for the slaveholder as for the slave, to labor in this cause.”

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

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

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

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