Frederick Douglass: “Since he is free he can now give it or withhold it, use it where he is, or take it elsewhere as he pleases.”

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.

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

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.