Frederick Douglass: “This contest was now ended; my chains were broken, and the victory brought me unspeakable joy.”

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

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

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.