Frederick Douglass: “I cannot breathe for you, or you for me; I must breathe for myself, and you for yourself.”

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.