Frederick Douglass: “I was several times dragged from the cars for the crime of being colored.”

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

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

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

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