Frederick Douglass: “For certain it is, that crime allowed to go unpunished, unresisted and unarrested, will breed crime.”

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.

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

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