Frederick Douglass: “The Negro has never set up a separate party, never adopted a Negro platform, never proclaimed or adopted a separate…”

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

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.

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.