Frederick Douglass: “It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy.”

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

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.

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.