Frederick Douglass: “I was, for weeks, a poor, brokenhearted mourner, traveling through the darkness and misery of doubts and fears.”

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

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

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

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