Frederick Douglass: “I have talked with many men, but I remember none, who seemed so deeply excited upon the subject of slavery as he.”

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.

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

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.