Frederick Douglass: “I could see no reason why I should, at the end of each week, pour the reward of my toil into the purse of my master.”

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

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

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.