Washington telegraph., 1856-12-24
a Sunday Evening Scene.

We need not go away off to Utah. says
the New York Express, in search OF Ger
tain peculiarities OF the social system, cal
culated to excite ones disgust-for the
rionstrosities OF Mormonisn, growing out
of its institution of Polygamy-bad as
they are-are not much more revolving
than those which were exhibited on the
Sunday evening preceding the election
at Metropolitan Hall, in the city Of Chica-
go. Our authority for the facts in the
case is the Times of that city
It was a Republican meeting. Time,
mind, Sunday EVENING" The orator-in-
chief was the black man, Frederick Doug
lass. As to who and what his audience
were-we let the Editor Of the Times
speak for himself.
.'There were white men and
sooty wenches, and black men and white
women, all listening with open mouths to
this negro, who boasted that white and
black people Were disappearing and mu-
lattoes were fast increasing. lie rejoiced
that this amalgamaiion WAS processing, and
his white and black audience responded
with cheers and tumultuous applause to
the disgusting sentiment.
SsFair white maidens were there, smil-
ing upon the champion OF freedom and
Fremont, and applauding with their giov-
ed hands his earnest wish that the distinc-
ton between the white and black races
would be lost, and instead Of them there
would sooa be bat one race-the decend-
ants of white women and black men
black women and white men. He thank
ed God that tine nulatto race was on the
increase in Chicago, and his audience
cried-Amen
=. Let US do this speaker justice; he
spoke to no idle rabble he spoke not
alone to negro men and negro women,
whose grosser instincts might be gratifed
by the vison of white husbands, white
wives and mixed blood children; he spoke
not alone to men of infatuated notions upon
the subject OF human liberty. His audi
elce lcGs tie ccly cream IF tie Fren1ont
party In Chicago. Men Of high social
position were there. with their wives and
daughters merchants from Luke street
and Water street, whose names figure con-
spicuously upon Fremont callsand Repub-
lican subscriptionlists Michiganavenue,
Wabash avenue, and the palatial residen-
ces of -Inea who c5rned their present
wealth by mechanical pursuits, and who,
by silks, satins, diamonds, hoops, feath-
els and broadcloth, crowd out of all pla-
ces the laboriu" man and mechanic 1--WE
quote the DemOcrGt,) were represented
there. These representatives ochng sooty
beauties and oeled by the colored dandies
In reiurn-these persons embracing the
wealth and ton of Chicago society were
there, listening with delighted hearts to
treason. and threats Of murder ana civil
war
..There were merchants ana their wives
Fremont merchants and their wives
whose checks did not blanch, whose hearts
did not swell Indignantly, when 4 negro
stood erect in their presence on Sunday
afternoon, and proclaimed that white men
and women, that fathers and mothers and
little babes-Aureric:.n citizens-should
be made to dream Of death in their sleep,
should fear death at their meals, should
be met By fire at their beds and poison in
.heir bread. This atrocious sentiment
caused no horrors in those hearts
Fred. Douglass is only a httle ahead of
the times. If things progress, as they
have lately been progressing, amalganla-
ton will doubtless be prominent plank
in some future Philadelphia platform. 1t
is one great poiat gained by amalgama-
tionists, to get bliok and white people to-
gether-the next step, locking to more
ultimate social relationships, will be COM
paratively easy.