Frederick Douglass: “I rest my denial not merely upon general principles but upon well-known facts.”

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

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

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.