Frederick Douglass: “They turned us loose to the open sky and left us not a foot of ground from which to get a crust of bread.”

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

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

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.