Frederick Douglass: “The charge against him at this time is, therefore, utterly groundless and is used for fraud, violence and persecution.”

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.

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

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

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