Frederick Douglass: “Now I hold that the American Negro owes no more to the Negroes in Africa than he owes to the Negroes in America.”

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

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

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.