Frederick Douglass: “It is no longer local but national; no longer confined to the South but has invaded the North.”

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

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

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.