Frederick Douglass: “I wish to speak advisedly, and in order to do this, I have waited till, I trust, experience has brought my opinions to…”

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

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

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their 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.