Frederick Douglass: “He has a country, a flag, and a government, and may legally claim full and complete protection under the laws.”

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.

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

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