Frederick Douglass: “It sets him to groping everlastingly after the impossible.”

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

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

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

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…