Frederick Douglass: “Tell them of cruel scourgings, of mutilations and brandings, of scenes of pollution and blood, of the banishment of all…”

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

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.

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.