Frederick Douglass: “But happily, both for the old master-class, and for the recently emancipated, there came then, as there will come now…”

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

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

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

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…