Frederick Douglass: “The abolitionists had passed the Red Sea of mobs, and had conquered the right to a respectful hearing.”

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

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

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

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