Frederick Douglass: “Divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them as we will.”

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

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

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

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