Frederick Douglass: “But, happily, such men do not represent the sentiments of the colored people, but greatly and flagrantly misrepresent…”

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

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

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

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…