Frederick Douglass: “It is nature's grand police, vigilant and faithful, sentineled in the soul, guarding against violence to peace and life.”

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

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

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

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.