Frederick Douglass: “Here was a broad road of destruction to slavery, which, before, had been looked upon as a wall of security by…”

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

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

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

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