The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-02-10

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. sliis Address or PRED DOUGLASS. Iasas3 4
| Following upon Mr.. Downing, Mr.
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mean our whole race. Your noble and
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the .word n assist In savinc the nation.
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sa-s RESPONSE of THE Pr PRESIDENT DENT
In reply to some of your Inquiries, not
to make a speech about this thing, for 1t
Is always best to talk plainly and dis
tinctly about such matters, I will say
that il have not given evidence in my
course that am friend of humanity,
and to that portion of it which consti-
tutes the c0l0red population, / can give
no evidence here. Everything that ]
have had, both as regards life and prop
erty, has been perilled I'm that cause and
feel and think that I understapd-7not
to be egotistic- what should be Che true
I direction OF this question, and what
course Of policy would result in tho me-
lioration and ultimate elevation, not
only of the colored, but of the great mass
| of the people of the United States. / say
that If / have not given evidence that
am a friend OF humanity, and especially
the friend0f the colored man, in any
past conduct, there is nothing that can
now do that would. I,repeat, all that
possessed, life, liberty, and property
have been put up In connection with
that question; when had every induce
ment held out to take the other course
by adopting which / would have &C
complished perhaps all that the most
ambitious might have desired If ]
know myself, and the feelings OF my
colored man. I have owned slaves and
bought slaves, but never sold one, ]
might shy, however, that practically. &C
far as my connection with slaves has
gone. have been their slave instead o.
their being niue. Some have even fol-
lowed me here, while others are occu.
plying and enjoying my property with
my consent. For the cOIored race m !
means, my tine, my all has been peril.
led; and now at thislate day. after giving
evidence that is tangible. that Is practi.
cal, / am free to say to YOU that I do moi
like to be arraigned ay, some who car
get up handsomely rounded perjods and
deal In rhetoric, and talk about abstract
ideas of liberty, who never perilled life,
liberty, or property. This kind of theo
retical, hollow, impractical friendship
amounts to but very little. While / saw
that 1 am q friend Or the colored man. /
do not want to adopt a policy that / be-
lieye will end in q. 'contest Ratvaen ltho
races, which if persisted in Will result
in the determination Of one or the
other God forbid that / should be en-
gagged in snch q work !9re41iii 8IiW D.
| o. Now, it isalways best to talk about
| things practically, and in a common
sense way. Yes, have said, and re-
peat here, that II the colored man in the
United states could find no other Moses,
or any Moses that would be more able
and efficient than myself, / would be
his Moses to lead him from bondage te
freedom that i would pass him from a
land where he had lived in slavery to q
land (if itlwefe in our reach) of free
DOM Yes, Lwould be willing to pass
with, him through. the Red sea to the
Land of Promise to the land of liberty :
but / am not willing, under either cir.
cumstance, to adopt policy which I
believe will only result in the sacrifice
Of his life and the shedding of his blood.