Frederick Douglass: “It was the turning-point in the conflict between freedom and slavery.”

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.

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

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