Frederick Douglass: “I had become quite useful to several young colored men, who had made me their teacher.”

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

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

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

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