Destruction has been swift; let your gifts be swift also.

If the Angel Charity is not as quick of wing as the Fire-Fiend, yet it is more mighty and far-reaching.

According to another saying handed down by ancient philosophy, that is the best government where a wrong to a single individual is resented as an injury to all.

Be it our duty to treat this calamity of individuals as the calamity of all.

Is there not in these examples a lesson of encouragement for Chicago sitting now in ashes?

A great fire in other days was worse than a great fire now; for then it was borne in solitude by the place where it occurred; now the whole country rushes forward to bear it, making common cause with the sufferers.

But future magnificence, filling the imagination, will not feed the hungry and clothe the naked, nor will it provide homes for the destitute.

In the first place, you must at all times insist upon your rights; and here I mean not only those already accorded, but others still denied, all of which are contained in Equality before the Law.

Wherever the law supplies a rule, there you must insist on Equal Rights.

Can a respectable colored citizen travel on steamboats or railways, or public conveyances generally, without insult on account of color?

Shut out from proper accommodation in the cars, the doors of the Senate Chamber opened to him, and there he found that equality which a railroad conductor had denied.

A hotel is a legal institution, and so is a common school, and as such each must be for the equal benefit of all.

Nor can there be any exclusion from either on account of color.

It is not enough to provide separate accommodations for colored citizens, even if in all respects as good as those of other persons.

Equality is not found in any pretended equivalent, but only in equality; in other words, there must be no discrimination on account of color.

The discrimination is an insult, a hindrance, a bar, which not only destroys comfort and prevents equality, but weakens all other rights.

The right to vote will have no security until your equal rights in the public conveyances, hotels, and common schools are at last established; but here you must insist for yourselves by speech, by petition, and by vote.

Will not colored fellow-citizens see that those in power no longer postpone this essential safeguard?

Nor has the Republican party done its work until this is accomplished.

Is it not better to establish all our own people in the enjoyment of equal rights before we seek to bring others within the sphere of our institutions, to be treated as Frederick Douglass was on his way to the President from San Domingo?

It is easy to see that a small part of the means, the energy, and the determined will spent in the expedition to San Domingo, and in the prolonged war-dance about that island, with menace to the Black Republic of Hayti, would have secured…

Among cardinal objects is Education, which must be insisted on; here again must be equality, side by side with the alphabet.

It is vain to teach equality, if you do not practise it.

It is vain to recite the great words of the Declaration of Independence, if you do not make them a living reality.

As all are equal at the ballot-box, so must all be equal at the common school.