Frederick Douglass: “At any rate, the eight years to come are as full of promise as were the eight that are past.”

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.

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

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