Frederick Douglass: “Ministers of religion come forward and torture the hallowed pages of inspired wisdom to sanction the bloody deed.”

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

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

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.