Frederick Douglass: “Despite the efforts of Daniel Webster and Millard Fillmore and our Doctors of Divinity, the law fell rapidly into…”

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

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

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

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