Frederick Douglass: “I was now living in a new world, and was wide awake to its advantages.”

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

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

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

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