Frederick Douglass: “When I get there, I shall not be required to have a pass; I can travel without being disturbed.”

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

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

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

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