Frederick Douglass: “Neither courts, jails, nor marshals are allowed to protect him.”

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

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

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…

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.