Frederick Douglass: “I never go there without endeavoring to see that tree, which, like the cause it sheltered, has grown large and strong…”

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.

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

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