Frederick Douglass: “In old times when it was asked, “How can we abolish slavery?” the answer was “Quit stealing.”

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

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

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

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