, 1864-01-17
EHEB. DOUGLASS AT COOP.
FIR INST1TUTE.
Ec Lectures before the Womnnss Loynl
Ienpf1r. Uckcribex I1fs Interview
with mr.. Lincoln, and Goca In for
tho War;

Ieppur. Uckcr1btx Fills Interview
with mr.. Lincoln, and Goes In for
the War; ::
|Fron tic n. T. Herald, Jan. 1871
Frederick Douglass, the well known col
ored sneaker, delivered the fourth OF series
of LECTURES before the II oulan's Loyal League
Of ills civ. at the Cooper Institute, last
eyeuIpc-eubjcct, The Mission Of the War"
Tie ia5ge hall Of the Institute was comforta.
lily tllled On the occasitn.. On the platform
Loyal Icsgue, interspefsed with q few males,
inelndipg Peter Cooper Theodore Tilton and
otna'1j In lie absence Of MlE willlam Cullen Bry-
ant, in consequence Of . death In his family.
the chair was taken By ollver johnson, edi-
duced to the assemblhge Fred. Douglass,
v nho spoke from eight O'clock unti1 near ten.
He said be felt good deal Of embarrassment
In rising to address an Intelligent assembly
like the one he saw before him. Perhaps
That vas owing littls to to his early edIea,
TINT stood father low in The estimation Of
the public just now. Cheers and 1aughter.]
He az there to speak TO them on the mission
Of the war, by which he meant nothing occult
or difficult to be understood. Men in all
the loyal States now tod them TINT slavery
was dead-that 1t expifed at the first shot at
sumter; but be was not quite SO confident
on that point as many of his friends. In
great crisis like the present, it became them
10 lock facts sternly In the fact, and accept
their verdict whether they blessed or blasted
them. He regarded ths great war as great
national opportunity, which might be i'm:
TO national ruin or national destruction. He
hoped for much from the bravery Of our army
our noble soldiers; tut In vain was the
might Of our army, In vain was the might Of
our ornaments, II The Government should
tail TO observe tie ,great principles
He tknnked the indies If the Loyal League Of
New York for keeping the auti-slavery qucs-
tion SO prominently btfore the public; for,
be it remembered, thet were not get out Of
danger. For what wa. all this ruin, shalne
and sorrow brought Of the countrys The
answer should be on every up-"slavcry,
sity--ilst he1lblack enormity, which the
people Of this country had not yet entirely
comprehcnded. No oR could deny that, and
no one had attempted 70 deny 1t who had any
ability to deny It. [fpplause] No, be Was
enc Of those who thought that one rebellion
was enough for Who'll life time for my one
nution, though that lie time should cover
the space Of q thousald years. He thought
The resolution Of cyey patriot should be
[whethcr the war was long one or short
whether it should cost,, st,,mueh or llttle) that
the work must noW be done and done
thoroughly. tCheers~] Every man should
see that TIE caInc nut of this war clear,
and that there was nota single slave Of q sim
| gle Shareholder left oi American soil We
we're once in SO low coalition that when our
| Kind phyeician-'D Dr.. hickman" called
| in hc decided tEat then was no hope for us.
! fLarghter.] We wtreeonscquently brought
| TO ruin for want Of In6lcine, while We 1ad
been drugged to death fith pro-slavery COM
promises Irenewed le'ghterl; Now, they
nothing YVES 60 we'll caculated to effect that
! but the steady and certdn progressof the Var.
It Was q fact that this vas IN abolition. War,
ard ,, for one, he was MT going to deny that,
/ and when the government and the people
would b1avcly come out and eay SO,
suit. The, speake then proceed
! ed to pitch into the Co}per1ead party, ullud-
! lpg to the riots in Neyi ork, and asserting
| that the Peace Democrats would all turn
oyer to JEFF: Davis II tley got the chance. He
| held that while the Copcrhead party existed
| and that they were liate to be sent back to
that same bondage frun Which they had now
an excellent chance to ecape. He did not like
the proclamation Of i1r. Lincoln, because
1t said take tic slave from the traitors in
the South, but to leaycthem With loyal men.
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