Frederick Douglass: “In my judgment no charge could be more unjust.”

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

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

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

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.