Frederick Douglass: “By that answer it will be seen that the force of the objection is, after all, more in sound than in substance.”

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

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.