Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-16
SPEECH OF FaED. DOUGLASS.
A violent Attack Oa the Presit5ent---HOE
a Waite Governor had TO Stand Out in
the Cold AT t;ie White House.

Fred. Douglass has been making a fierce
attack upon President Johnson before the
elite Of Boston. The occasion was pub
I lie lecture-One Of the Fraternity Course,
Music Hall, on Monday evening-when
he spoke as follows of Messrs. Lincoln,
johnson and Beecher;
He Lincoln was the first of a long
line Of Presidents who dared to invite a
negro to the White House. He had the
ability to talk with a negro without once
. reminding him that he 3 a nsgrO-an ac-
: O0mplishment that does not seem to be
left al the White House. Once when |
called on the President, said Mr.. Doug
/ lass, Gov. Buckingham also called and
. desired to see Mr.. Lincoln. Tell him
he must wait, said the President; "
want TO have long talk with my friend
I Douglass / think, continued the lee
I tlIrer, that was the first time that the
/ Governor Of q great State-not very
contemptible Statc-was compelled to
stand out IN the cold while the President
was cOnversing with q negro.
HENRY WARD BEEcEER.
/ Tho lecturer then referred 10 the recent
/ sermon OF the Rev. II. w. Beecher, and
said In this gospel Of forgiveness, there
Is a new advocate. ! Thought President
Johnson stood alone high above the New
Testament But lately there has sprung
up another preacher in Brooklyn, who
seems 10 be equally in the fOrgiving and
forgetting mood. I believe Christianity
to be liberal enough in this direction, but
Beecher Is r3OFe liberal than Christianity,
and So is President johnson, In tho
Christian religion we are required To for
give our enenlies, and forgive them that
trespass against US, even seven times a
day, and seventy times seven, but upon
one condition, and this seems to be en-
tirely Cl1ltt5u III the present case-if they
repent. That IS the condition. TAP
piause.
THE PRESIDENT AND Mr.. DAVIS.
l believe that We are on the verge, my
friends, of being surrendered TO the
conquered rebels, that We are on the
verge Of losing JhRt for which this war
was Waged, and / am inclined 70 think
that We are 10 lose il, if not through
imbecility, through treacheTy on the part
Of the very man that sits at the head Of
the Government. Jefferson Davis is a
great criminal, ! would not say word
in mitigation of his crime or eXtenuation
Of his punishment. Punished! he Il never
be punished No danger of his beng
punished-nOt the least in the world.
He's only waiting to come under the
head Of the twenty thousand dollar
.
the role of a traitor openly and honestly.
He was a wolf, but not a wolf in sleeps
clothing, though he was found, believe,
in a ladY's dress, Whatever else may be
said Of him, be did not steal the Furnished
livery of the great heavens 10 serve
the devil IN. He did not by loud
and furious devotion 10 the rebel cause,
get himself at the head of II merely to
betray it and 10 destroy it. Whatever
else NAV haunt his conscience in his cell
wonder at Fort Monroe; whatever else
the thought can never come TO him there
that he betrayed the friends who trusted
him with power. he did what he could,
and whatever consolation can bederived
from devotion TO bad cause must be his.
But what shall be said of the man at
Washington who wGs 50 loud and so fu-
rious = few months ago IN his denuncia-
ton Of treason and traitors, and slavery
and arlstOcracy, and every form of class
legislation who was only impatient with
our good President Lincoln because he
was too lenient Of the traitors; what
shall we think OF him, II, after these
rOfessiOns-pFGfsssipg his determination
10 punish traitors and make treason obi
Ous by punishment, declaring that trea-
son IL q crime and not a difference of
opinion, that traitors must be pun
/ ished, not pGrdOned, that slavery in
every root and fiber must be de-
stroyed, that the liberties of the negro
must be secured-what shall we think of
him after getting possession Of his Gov
ernment and this cause, he shall finally
betray it into the hands of men who have
tried 10 destroy it i he shall select those
: who ara Jhe gqiltiest Of this rebellion
the rich men Of the Soulful ne shall Sc
leCt those men Nho led the bloody host
that sought 70 destroy this country
: what shall be said Of him if he shall be-
tray US by giving the power 10 these
Shareholders, taking II away from our
friends, by giving the elective franchise
TO these rebels and taking Il away from
the brave klRoA men who, with iron arms
ana steel fingers, stood up in defense of
our flag at the south? Loud applause.
{ What shall be said OF this man, Il
he sAan betEay US, demoralize the
p,spublican party, deaden the moral SEN
timent Of the North, and leave 10 our
, children another negro question TO breed
! war and disturbance in the future? Why
we must say Of him as the Scripture
hath" Better were it for that man that
, he had not been born better that mill
: stone be hanged about his neck aud he be
. cast into the sea, than that be should dc
Z this thingn We abhor very properly
! Jefferson Davis and Booth, but deeper
q and more dreadful execrstion will settls
J. upon the mans name if be shall sacrifice
: Us to mis- policy, as he now evidently aims
= 10 do. Why, II were a white man, aftel
, This war, I should blush to my bones K
: look white man in the face and deny
< him the right of suffrage.