Frederick Douglass: “I would leave him to imagine himself surrounded by myriads of invisible tormentors, ever ready to snatch from his…”

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

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.

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