Frederick Douglass: “What he said on this day showed a deeper moral conviction against slavery than I had even seen before in anything spoken…”

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

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.

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