Frederick Douglass: “This excuse, it is needless to say, is contemptible and hypocritical.”

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

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.

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.