Frederick Douglass: “Murder itself was not more sternly and certainly punished in the State of Maryland, than that of aiding and abetting the…”

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.

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

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.