Frederick Douglass: “The keynote of the future should not be concentration, but diffusion--distribution.”

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

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

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.

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