Frederick Douglass: “I had taught some of them to read, and was accustomed to spend many of my leisure hours with them.”

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

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

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…

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