Frederick Douglass: “But the thing which more than all else destroyed the fugitive slave law was the resistance made to it by the fugitives…”

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

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

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