Frederick Douglass: “Their apparent joy only deepened the shades of my sorrow.”

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

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