Frederick Douglass: “Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains…”

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

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.

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