Frederick Douglass: “If it be broken toward the slave on Sunday, it will be toward the master on Monday.”

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.

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

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…