Frederick Douglass: “It is a proclamation of the helplessness of the Nation to protect its own citizens.”

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

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

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

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