Frederick Douglass: “Send me my grandmother! that I may watch over and take care of her in her old age.”

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…

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

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