Frederick Douglass: “Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity.”

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

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

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.