Frederick Douglass: “Charles Francis Adams performed signal service in the Massachusetts legislature, in bringing this reformation; and to…”

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.

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

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

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