Frederick Douglass: “We are far from affirming that there may not be too much zeal among colored men in pursuit of political preferment; but…”

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

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

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

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