Frederick Douglass: “The peace of slavery would be disturbed; slave rule would be endangered.”

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

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

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

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.