Frederick Douglass: “He that eat fastest got most, and he that was strongest got the best place; and few left the trough really satisfied.”

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

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

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

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