The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-05-07
The Blacks Feeling Their Oats.

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I'd delivered in that city on Friday last, b,
10 Fred Douglass. He takes the ground that
}. as the negro is the cause of the war, the wa
d can and viii! be settled only by putting th,
ID negro on an equality with the white man
s; civ:lly and politically. The Abolitionist
% are for making the war free the blacks. anc
!, Douglass is for making it not only free
K them, but enf.anchise them also. We dc
T, not complain of the blacks making use o
9 their opportunity, as it may never occur tc
d them again. Greedy has told them that, il
= the seeded States return voluntarily to theil
y allegiance. or are reduced to submission, the
? States can re- enslave the blacks found with
= in their borders. Douglass will see that
d there is considerable to be done vet before
be realizes the hope that is in him. Gin.
t Enquirer.
= Fred Douglass dit National Hall.
[From the Philadelphia Inquirer.l
. According to announcement, Frederick
, Douglass, last evening, delivered an elo-
, quent lecture on the ':Crisis of National Af-
fairs" at National Hall. Although the
!; weather was adverse, yet the house was
we'll filled. and during the orators lecture
he was listened to with close attention and
!. undated interest to the close.
On being presented to the audience, Mr..
douglass said the paramount and all-ab-
sorbing question Of the day is the relation
of the white man to the black. Men had
endeavored to degrade the question as the
''nigger" question, but only succeeded in de-
4 grading themselves. They would like to
put it aside for some more popular question,
such as the Union as it was, the Constitu-
tion as it is; but it would be nigger still
| The negro was alive and abroad, and no
amount of contempt wonld drive him back
to obscurity. The term "negro" was the
most pregnant now spoken. ...H
| 1t is the pivot upon which turns the Un-
ion. Many attempts had been made to push
the negro question aside, but it had deied
the compromising skill of the most profound |
statesmen. What shall be done with the
negro meets US every -where; in the street |
and the home circles, in the halls of legis-
lation, and in foreign courts. The best
thing for the negro, the country and the
world, would be to look about for just
settlement of this question. The negro is
dark, but he has the soul of man, and he
should be made member of the body poll
tic. and invested with equal rights in this
community. This is the only settlement of
this question. The negro and the nation
must be one; must rise or fall, survive or
perish together. Destroy the negro and It
destroys the nation; so that the interest of
both demands thet the negro should be
taken into TIE national family. aud treated
as a man and brother. For sixty years the
nation had bowed in cringing subservieucy
to an arrogant slave power, the nation had
lied in the face of Heaven, and disgraced its
manhood; and, vet, that power grew more
arrogant and more exacting, until it had
broken out n a war that had never been
equaled in the previous history of the
world. Under that subserviency, the prac-
tice of the golden rule was i'm possible; the
Declaration of Independence was impractic-
able; the Union and the Constitution were
Nothing but war was posi-
BILE, and war ensued. Even the Democratic
party, which had squatted lower than any
other organization in its homage to the ar
rogance of the slave power, was forced to
yield to the pressure of the times, and was
broken up at Charleston.
The time has come for the admission of
the negro into complete and full member
ship in the body polite. Other measures
have been proposed. 1t has been suggested
to enslave the whole negro race; that would
produce a monarchy. Another scheme is {
to colouize the black race, send the negro {
out of the country; this delightful dream,
an impracticable Utopiangplau. Another !
mode proposed is to emancipate the slaves
in form and to enslave them in fact; to free J
the negroes and then hire them out to their 2
masters as General Banks is doing; that only
frees the slave from his m aster and makes !
him slave to the community. !
These devices will not do. The black i
man must be taken into full equality with
the whites Throw down the BARRIERS e
Open the doors of cottages; remove the re-
straiuts of the ballot box. and, above all, al
low the black man seat in the jury box, Z
when the negro is to be tried. And woe to Q
his country If they refuse to meet the ques-
ion fairly! There is some fiery storm of o
wrath in Heaven, red with uncommon ven 8
yeance for those who refuse to the blacks e
he rights of citizenship, and who propose v
% crush out the blacks altogether by pro- q
7okiDg war of extermination between the 8
wo races. There is only one other way to Q
dispose of this question-do the negro IL
usticei The black men are nearer the white -"
ace in intellectual powers than any other o
lass of people. The negro approaches the u
white in refinement, and no man looks down {
With such contempt upon low individual s,
S the negro does. The negro fiourshes and tt
Increases, the Indian retreats and dies. Now o
an this negro race be blended into national n
quality with the white race be blended in u
o national equality with the white race?- =
t can. Not social equality, rot amalgama- u :.
ion, but the negro demands that. in th g II
ye Of the law. the negro's rights should be ', "
s sacred as the white m aus. n
The negro is man, and the safety of this q
ountry rests upon the patriotism of the re
oyal people; and the speaker looked for
ward to a time when this Government will
70 as eager to get the black man into the 7
condition of citizenship as it had been to de- n
rive him of it, and the day was now is
awnipg when the negro's rights would be o.
ecognized and lis claims ack no wleded. and 2
ls would be received into the family of the 81
Republic. .J F.- -. v