Frederick Douglass: “They are taught less by theories than by facts and events.”

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

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.