New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-12
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The condition and the future prospects wos
core people Of the United States TINS subject elssf
op- and opsns simple scope COR thought AMI feeling fea
laencs IL IFS considers non two caysAt
6rst my incompetence 20 DO u lustc>-and the 90
ond the peculiar relation subs'ing between me aud bs
sudicnce am 30 address. Sir, AN coiosco man ana
this : white audience No coored man. with any ns<
vous visibility, stand before an American and9rS
without an intense and oaiufa Of the immense d&
vsnfsge under which he labors lie feels little borne W
that b0theTly sympathy and generous enthusiasm WI
give wings 70 the eoqaence and strength 70 the heta
shler men engaged in ADLER and popular causes -
ground which colored man occupies in this coaai'
every inch Of Il sternly disputed SIR were wne y.
speaking before and for white should in this coua'r
have smooth and fair wind 10 "a perhaps credNesT
y, ,he American people land sir am net the man 70 de
tract from their credit thar they listen eagerly 70 the 70
po,, ofwronys endured by distant nations The iungs
he Itssa the Irishnan the jew and the Gentle All fae
in hi. and home and when any IT them or All OF mem
desire to speak. they ind vlihag ears Nsfm neas W
open hands For these people, tue Amercsn' "a Trn'
cples OF Justice, maxims OF mercy senhens o' s t''t
ana feaiscs Of brotherhood in abundance r.. .sSws
lo- people and rainedst vosed sepr
fh,t America had neither Justice. mercy ees GO
srougs-she has no standard BY which 70 metsurs
rights just here les the difficulty OF my eia>eo
II is found in the fact that we may not avail = =.
admitted American principles. do not sns
feelings of nv white fellow countrymen generally, they
wish 70 understand distinctly and fully that they VISA
most Of all 20 have nothing whatever 70 DO with Us uees
tmay Dc TO coin dollars out Of our blood Our posuou
here anomalous, unequal. and extraordinary Is 20
scn to which the most Of us cannot look VIA
this fortunate but for this should have long he
fore the present seemingly unpropous hour sunk IVA
under sense Of despair Look at Il Sir Here upon tbs
soil Of birth in country which has known for CEN
turtles, among people who did not wait for 10 seek
them, but people who sought and who brought TO
their own chosen and-a people for whom have per
formed the humbes services and whose greatest comforts
ard Injuries have been nom the earth by the strength
Of cur sable and sinewy arms. say, Sir among such
people and with guch recommendations TO favor we aro
esteemed less than strangers and sourneraens are We
in native land The fundamental principles OF the Re
public TO which the humbest white man. whether born
here or elsewhere may appeal with confidence IN the hops
Of awakening favorable response held to be inapp
cable TO The glorious doctrines Of your revolutionary
fathers and the still more glorious teachings OF the Son OF
God construed and applied against us. We are liz
orally scorged beyond the benehcent range OF both su
hGrites human and divine We plead fer our rights in
the name Of the immortal Declaration Of Independence
and of the Constitution, and we are answered by our
cOunymen with mprecstions aud In the sacred
of Jesus beg for mercy and the slave whip red
with blood cracks over US in mockery, We invoke the
aid Of the ministers of Him who to preach deliver
10 the captves and 10 set al be them that ars
bound and from the loest SUBMITS of this ministry
the nhumaa and basphemous response that prayer
would move the almighty in mercy 70 break our gall
ing chains, that prayer would be Withheld, We cry Or
help to humanity, common humanity, and here too We
repulSed American humanity hates scorns US dis
and denies personality. The outspread wing Of
American Chrstisni'y-apparertyb broad enough togye
shelter to pershing world-refses TO To US
its bones brass and its feathers iron In running hth
for shelter and succor have only fled from the hun
gry bloodhound the devOurng wof-from corrupt and
selfish world 10 hollow and hypocrcal church and may
not add from the agones OF earth TO the flames OF hell,
Sir this is strong language. For the sake Of my people
would 70 God exravagantly strong But Sir fear
fault here 10 day will not be that have pleaded the
cause OF the slave too vehemeny but too tsmely that
have not contemplated his wrongs with too much ex-
element but with unnatural camness and composure For
my part cannospeak feel this subject My language.
though bitter less bitter than my experience
AT best my poor speech ~ 10 the facts IN the case but as
the shadow 20 the substance. Sir II known 20 you and
20 many who hear me, that | alike familiar with this
whip and chain of slavery and the lash and sting OF public
nd $40 hat IN 1
and my soul fetted with the other My neck Is CALLED
by both yOkes-thst imposed by master, and that i'm
posed by many masters More than twenty years OF my
life passed in Slavery and nearly fifteen years have
been passed in nominal freedom. & has been the ex
perenee OF the coored people OF ALeroa both slave ana
free. was born slave Even before made part OF thus
breathing world the scourge plated for my back and
the letters forged for my limbs My earliest recolec
tons are associated with the appalling thought that
slave-a slave for life How that crushing Thought wrung
my young heart l shall never be able fully to tell
But Of some things tells0mo things which are in
cdent 10 the free and 20 the slave people Of this country.
Give me leave them in my own language to speak freely
all that be uttered OF the thoughts my heart in regard
ated in the two conditions 20 which have thus alluded
for when have said all Ate half will not then have been
told Sir said by that greatest OF modern Irish
orators, Daniel OCOnnel-(l man whose patriotism
equaled only by his love of universal eedom that the
history of the Irish people might be traced like wounded
man through crowd by the blood That i most start
Ling saying read with ashudder soon after was said.
and felt this were true in relation to tha Irish people t
still true in relation 10 the c0Ored people OF tina
United States Our wrongs ana Ouages are as old "a our
country. They date back to its earliest settlement. and
extend through two hundred and thirty yearsand they
and oft repeated The days Of all these
years. Even now while speak and you listen the work
OF blood and sorrow goes on Monks hear the noise OF
chains and the clang Of the whip There 10 not day not
an hour IN any daynot minute in any hour OF the day.
that the blood my people does not gush forth at tho call
of the scOrgehat the enderest ties Of humanity not
sundered-that parents torn from children aud
husbands not torn from their wives for the convenience
OF those who gain fortunes by The blood Of souls.
But DO propose % cOnne your attention 10 the details
Of Slavery. They are narrowing 70 think of and too
shocking 70 fix the mind upon for any length Of time
rather wish TO speak Of the condition Of the c0lOred people
ofhe United States generally This people free and slave,
rapidly filling up the number OF four millions. They
becoming nation in the midst Of nation which dis
owns them and for veal or for woe this nation Is united.
The distinction between the slave and the free not great
and their destiny and the The black
linked TO his brother by ndissoluble ties The
be truly free while the other slave The free colored
reminded by the ten thousand petty annOyances
with which he meets Of his identity with an ensayed peo
pleand that with them he is destined 10 fall flourish
We nation then ii not In immediate condition
Al least one In prospects. will not argue that
Of like passions with the rest Of mankind that Is
sagy All know al any rate that are capable least Of
love and hate friendship and enmity But whatever char
acter capacity you ascrbe not ashamed TO be
numbered with this not ashamed 20 speak hers
negro. Sir utterly abhOr and spurn with all the
tempt possible that cOwardy meanness will not call il
pride, which leads any c00red man 10 repudiae his
nectiOn with bsrace. cannot say therefore said
recently by distinguished cOlOred man al Convention i'm
Cincinnati, that be did not speak as colored
man, for, sir, as cOlored man i do speak-ss
a cOlorcd man invited here 10 speak-and col
Ored man there peculiar for my speaking.
The man struck is the 70 cry out. would place my
oppression view this subject from their stand point
and scan the moral and political horizon Of the country
with their hopes their fears, and their intense sOcude.
Standing here, then and judging from the events and ind-