Frederick Douglass: “You will remember that during all the first years of reconstruction, and long after the war, Negroes were slain by…”

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

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

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

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