The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-09-05
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
IFor Additional Local Items see Ftfa Page. !


FIRED. DOUGLASS ON THE SITUATION
In our editions OF yesterday we gave the proceed.
lngs az the Union League House, up to the time
OF gong TO press. Alter this there were lou
Calls Tor Fred. Douglass. which, being renewed
Genefal Malbridge presented him to the meet
ing as man whose single eXertions had achieved
grea.er results TOR his race than the exerions of
any other man who ever lived (The audience
rose as one man, and greeted Mr.. Douglass with
most enthusiastic manifestations.)
Mr.. Douglass spoke at great length, with
much humor and pathos, and occasionally with
considerable eloquence. in advocacy OF the com
plete and unconditional recognition of the rights
OF colored men. He had read, he said the ad.
Dress recently adopted at q convention in this
city, and had found many things i'm Il to which
he could heartily assent, and to nothing in that
address could he assent more heartily than to
the powerful argument there made against taxa
ton without representation. (Laughter--the
audience recognizing the remark as a palpable
bit.) il That address had emanated from a
cOlOred convention, he thought he should have
gone for every word OF it. 1t was only know
ledge OF the motives That inspired it, and of the
limited construction that was to be given to it,
that led him at all TO reject it, or to regard it as
AN unfortunate state paper. II had been said
by Daniel O'Connell twenty wears ago that the
history OF Ireland might be traced, like a
wounded man through a crowd, by blood. In
comparably more truly might that statement be
made respecting the negro.
For two hundred and fifty years he had been
subjected to all the eXterminating forces OF
slavery-mar1iage abolished organization un-
known, education denied, the right to learn to
read the name of the God who made him denied,
the family tie broken up; and yet, under all the
exterminating forces OF slavery, here the
negro was to-day, an Uncle Tom in the
Church, and a Robert Small in the harbor
of Charleston. (Cheers.) Here they are now,
between four and five millions strong, and the
question came up at once, "Shall the preseuCe
Of that vast black population be made blessing
to themselves and to the country, or curse to
themselves and TO the countryW Statesman
ship had but one answer Philanthropy had
but one answer. 1t was, the thorough, the COM
plete incorporation of the whole Olack element
INTO the American body polite. (Cries of"Good,n -
and "bravo.O
Anything less than that would prove an utter
failure. The negroes should have the right to
all the boxes, the jury-boX, the witness. box,
the ballot-boX. The men who were outside OF
these boxes were in rather bad box. laugh
ter.) With the ballot.boX, every other box was
secured. The black man deserved it. He did
not mean to say that without the black man
the whites of the North could not have put
down the Rebellion; but he would say that the
blacks had helped to put 1t down and that should
not be forgotten. (Cues Of ave will not forget
iLo) We were your friends, said he during the
war. While Others were your enemies, we were
your friends. While ur poor soldiers, escaping
from Andersonville, Belle Isle, or Castle Thun-
der, hated to see che face of a white man, they
rejoced whenever they could catch glimpse OF
black man. (Cheers.) We were eyes to your
blind, legs to your lame, shelter to your shelter
less bread to your hungry prisoners
Another reason | have for asking this is that
you may want us again. daughter and cheers.
1t is not well, even for great nation, to have
four and a half millions OF a justly discon-
tented people. Snail it be said that in making
peace America remembered her enemies but
forgot her frends-(cries OF Never )-eXalteC
her enemies and cast down her friends en-
franchised her enemies and disfranChised hel
friends? ('No. neverp)
delegate-How about Beecher?
Nr. Douglas-Beecner? Oh, God bless my
| was coming to the hall, how ] accounted fo
Beechers position. We're you ever asked tina
question | have been asked it Thousand
times. ! have never been able to answer i
satisfactorily to myself. | answer it as Beeche,
himself answered, on one occasion, a very per
and fppant lady who asked him, at tea ont
evening "Mr Beecher, can you tell us in wha
condition Paul was when he was lifted up Il
the third heaven2" Il am sure" said Mr.
Beecher, 'if Paul did not know himself,
do not know how | should" Uproariou
laughter.)