Frederick Douglass: “The border men hate the Indians; the Californian, the Chinaman; the Mohammedan, the Christian, and vice versa.”

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

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

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

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