Frederick Douglass: “While it modifies and shapes all physical conditions, it is itself superior to all such conditions.”

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

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

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

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