Frederick Douglass: “The iron gate of our prison stands half open.”

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.

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

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.