Frederick Douglass: “It is national territory, and the one place where no American is an intruder or a carpet-bagger.”

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

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

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

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