Frederick Douglass: “Liberty became more and more the glory of the North, and slavery more and more the idol of the South.”

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

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

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

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