Frederick Douglass: “This result was not brought about without the intervention of the people, and the threatened enactment of a law…”

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

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

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

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