Frederick Douglass: “But, manifestly, it is all nonsense to make suffrage to the coloured…”

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But, manifestly, it is all nonsense to make suffrage to the coloured people, the cause of the failure of good government in the Southern states.

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Frederick Douglass

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He argues against the notion that Black suffrage is the root cause of poor governance in the South.

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

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No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

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

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

Frederick Douglass: “But, manifestly, it is all nonsense to make suffrage to the coloured people, the cause of the failure of good government…”