Frederick Douglass: “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous; for upon these conditions…”

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.

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

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.

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