Frederick Douglass: “For the present the best representative of the slavery party is the Democratic party.”

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.

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

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