Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-12-10
Another Lecture.

We understand that Negro, by the
name of II. FORD DOUGLASS, is about
to deliver q lecture for the edification an
instruction of his political friends in Da-
venport. We would much prefer to
listen to an out and.out eDsrky," thun-
de,ing his dcnunciations against the
Government and institutions of the
country, than to form part of an au-
dience for white volunteer in the same
cause. The Negro being dcbarred by
the Constitution from the enjoyment Of
the clecti, franchise, does not stand in
the same position in relation to the Gov
eminent that the white citizen does. If
the former plots treason, lie is not as
culpable as the latter who violates his
allegiance.
Inorder that our Republican friends may
have foretaste of the rich treat in store
for them, We annex a synopsis OF two
lectures delivered by the said Douglass,
at Mt. Vernon, Linn CO., which synopsis
we take from the Mt. Vernon Weekly
News. a regular Abol;tion-Rcpublican
organ, even as radical as our own Ga
zette :.
"Men talk of bad laws, as though our
laws were separate and distinct part
of this government of thirty million
people. The Fugitive Slave Bill, as dis
graceful as it is, was but the out-growth
Of man stealing church, that leaned
over the cradle Of Webster and Fillmore
in babyhood and taught them, at the
most impossible moments of their lives
that they could be good christians and
yet cnslavc the Negro.
"Henry Ward Bcecher would teach
the slaves to submit until corrupt
church, which has been preaching trea-
son against God for forty years in this
country, converted the master. He
liked John Browns idea of carrying the
gospel to these Virginia heather, and if
he deserved to be hanged as traitor and
murderer, then GeorgeW ashington, and
all our revolutionary heroes, were but
traitors and murdercrs, aud the eternal
shaft which has been raised on Bunker
Hill but perpetuates the memory of A
murderous toray against the legitimate
rights Of George the Third. He had
no faith in the progressive tendencies Of
a slave holding Democracy. 1t was the
men outside OF the Government, who are
wiling to accommodate themselves to
the political expediency of the hour,
that was to save liberty to the people
in these Thirty three America States.
"Blot out this government to day, and
the only part of our record Hundred
years hence worth remembering will be
the herolsm of Brown and the history
OF the Underground Railroad. A hum
dred years hence, when Virginia shall
become decent State, either by the in
terpo>ition Of the white man or the
strong arm of the black, her sons look
ING to SIC sen,per Uranus upon her ar
mortal bearings, will reverse the decisions
of the hour, and remember the event at
Harper's Ferry only to claim the g'o,i-
Gus deeds OF old John Brown as q part
Of the patrmony Of that ancient com
monwcalth. Such IS history, the mar
tyrs of to-day are the heroes Of to-mor-
row.
1.-Two of the most remarkable speech
es ever pronounced against despotlsm in
any age or country has signaIized the
courts Of America within the last six
months. Both justifying the motives
which led to open resistance to the in
fcrnal doctrine that man can hold prop
erty in man. lie referred to the speech
es of John Brown at Charlestown, and
Charles II. Langston, at Cleveland. If
the blood of the martyr is the seed of
the church, and Virginia shareholders
dare murder Brown after such a brave
speech, for every drop Of blood that
courses in his veins shall come m a
thousand earnest Anti-slavery men to
vindicate his character and ayenge his
death, not ceasing in their efforts until
justice and the law Of the living God
shall clothe four million bondmen in this
guilty land with the vestment. of free
dom. The other speech which does
honor to our age, was pronounced BY a
black man 10 the face of fierce and Bit
ter governmental prosecution, such as
was unknown in the shameful records Of
the old broken and blasted despotisms
that rot along the centuries
After he was through it was an
nouuced that he would lecture again on
Friday evening. His second lecture
was a mastery effort.
The next day was one Of considera-
bic excitement. The charge Of Mr.. D.
that the N. E. Church was pro-slavery
must be repealed, and on Saturday even