Frederick Douglass: “If the Republican party cannot stand a demand for justice and fair play, it ought to go down.”

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

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.

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…