Frederick Douglass: “I would not make suffrage more exclusive but more inclusive.”

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.

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.

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.