Frederick Douglass: “We must regard it as a part of a series of splendid public measures, as one of so many steps in the national progress…”

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

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

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

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