Frederick Douglass: “Not even the character of a great political organization can be changed by a new platform.”

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

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.

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

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