Frederick Douglass: “Mean and contemptible as is all this, it is in keeping with the character which the life of a slaveholder is calculated…”

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.

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.

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