Frederick Douglass: “His plan was to whip for the smallest offences, to prevent the commission of large ones.”

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.

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.

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.