Frederick Douglass: “Those who looked for confession heard only the voice of rebuke and warning.”

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.

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