Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-11-26
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The chicago Times, democratic psj sey of that
city, gives an interesting, though dise stng, &C.
count Of the recent Black Republican meeting in
that city, assembled on the Sabbath, to listen to
a lecture from Fred Douglass, the celebrated mig
ger. We extract the following for the interest of
our readers. 1t presents some new and novel
questions to be considered .-..-
Metropolitan Hall presented singular scene on
Sunday afternoon. There were white men and
sooty wenches, and black men and white women,
all listening with open mouths to this negro who
boosted that white and black people were disap.
pearing and that mulsttoes were fast increasing.
He reioiced that this smalgamstion was progress
sing and his white aud black audience responded
with cheers and tumultuous applause to the dis
| gushing sentiment
Fair white msidens were here, smiling upon the
| champion of Freedom and Fremont, and applaud
ing with their gloved hands, his earnest wish that
the distinction between the white and black races
| would be lost, and that instead of them there
would soon be one rsce-descendants of white
women and black meu--black women and white
men. He thanked God that the mulatto race was
on the increase in Chicago and his audience cried
| Amen.
Here was freedom, free love, free living, Free
| mont, and free everything else, presented to a
| Chicago audience by free negro, of Sabbath
afternoon. We do not know that the community
| can complain of a want of free speech, when such
| man can utter such sentiments on such day, to
| cheering, tumultuous audience in the very heart
of the city.
Negro equality, social and political, is the reli-
| gious or Sabbath day doctrine of the Fremont
party They proclaim that negro man is as good
| man as q German or an Irshmsn; their sons
and daughters are taught that foreigner is an
odious social being, and it is no wonder that these
sons and daughters following the parental teach
ipgs, take occasion to evince their delighted ap.
provsl of the orator who speaks fright out in meet
| ing" in favor of the ABSORPTION of the white race
in that of the black.
Let US do the speaker justice; he spoke to no
idle rabble; he spoke not only to negro men and
negro women, whose gosser instincts might be
| gratifed by the vision of white husbands, white
wives and mixed blood children; he spoke not
alone to men of infatuated notions upon the SUBJ
ject of human liberty. His audience was the very
cream of the Fremont party in Chicago. Men OF
high social position were there with their wives
and daughters; merchants from Lake street and
Water street, whose names figure conspicuouslv
upon Fremont calls and Republican subscription
lists. Michigan avenue Wabash avenue, and the
paatial residences of men who earned their pres
ent wealth by mechanical pursuits, and who now,
by, "siIks, satins, diamonds, hoops, feathers and
brosdcloth," crowd out of places the laboring men
and mechanic, 1--WE quote the Dsnocrat) were rep
resented there These representatives oghng the
sooty beauties aud ogled by the colored dandies
in return These persons, embracing the wealthy
and ton of Chicago society, were there, listening
with delighted hearts to treason, and threats oil
murder and civil war.
There were merchants and their wives-Fre-
mont merchants and their Fremont wives-whose
cheeks did not blanch, whose hearts did not swell
Indignantly, when a negro stood erect in their
presence on q Sunday afternoon, and proclaimed
that white men and women-thst fathers and
mothers, and little babes, American citizens, fel-
low countrymen-should be made to dream of
death in their sleep, should iea- death at their
meals should be met by fire in their beds, and
poison in their bread This atrocious sentiment
caused no horror in those hearts. On the contrary,
this terrific invocation, in the name of Fremont
and Jessie, ELECTED enthusiastic applause. This is
Fremontism in Chicago. This is the Fremontism
of Lovejoy, who said that Fillmore should have
received electric shock sending him to hell, be-
cause he signed the Fugitive Slave Law. This is
the Fremontsm of John P. Hale, OF General Nye.
The latter does not express it 80 plainly, but they
the white lsborers in the vineyard of Horrors.
| We commend to the couutrymeu OF Hecker the
speech of his coslaborer in the cause OF Fremont.
Hecker says that God intended the negro to be
as free as the white man, and he should be free
despite all human laws; and Frederick Douglass
follows on, proclaiming that, Hecker being right,
it is lawful and indeed praseworthy, to visit the
STAKEHOLDER with fire in his bed, and poison IN his
food. Hecker declares the negro the equal of the
white man, and his negro associate follows on, re-
joicing in the approach of the hour when negro
arms will encircle the fair daughters of Germany,
and negroprogeny will arise in the land.
These people, these men who profess to be, and
believe themselves to be pious christians, were
there, and with their clergymen heard and ap.
plauded the iendsh invocation to murder They
retired from that meeting, repaired to their respec
tive homes, and gathering around them their fam
lilies, with upturned hearts and eyes, invoked from
their Heavenly Fathers blessing and their daily
bread. This they did, forgetlul that a few hours
before they had, with voice and hand, and heart,
concurred in the justice of visiting thousands of
their fellow men and countrymen with fire in their
| beds and poison in their bread They asked OF
Heaven their daily bresd-pure and streng then.
ing, and wished to their neighbors the poison d
crust, the deadly cup, the blazing b d. Such is
Fcemontism in Chicago, on Sunday, October 10Th,
1856.