Frederick Douglass: “He that was covered with chains, and that is now being covered with glory, and whom we will send back a gentleman.”

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

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

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

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