Frederick Douglass: “I have no words to describe to you the deep agony of soul which I experienced on that never-to-be-forgotten morning—for…”

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

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

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

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.