Frederick Douglass: “It was not my enslavement, at the then present time, that most affected me; the being a slave for life, was the saddest…”

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.

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

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