Frederick Douglass: “For the moment, the dreams of my youth and the hopes of my manhood were completely fulfilled.”

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

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

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…