Frederick Douglass: “The peculiar feature of his government was that of whipping slaves in advance of deserving it.”

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.

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

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