Frederick Douglass: “For one, I say away with such contrivances, such lame and impotent substitutes for the justice and protection due us.”

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

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

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

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