Frederick Douglass: “The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.”

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

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.

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