Frederick Douglass: “Thus, after a long, tedious effort for years, I finally succeeded in learning how to write.”

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

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

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

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.