Frederick Douglass: “Covey, he was a professor of religion—a pious soul—a member and a class-leader in the Methodist church.”

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.

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

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