Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1866-02-22

l., In reply-to some of your Inquiries mot +
i pakesa speech about tbs matter, for It is Al
ways best to talk plainly and distinctly abou
such questions--I now shy that if h]ve no
given evidence in my former career that
am 9, friend to- humanity, ,tandto, that Portiol
4 Of it which constitutes the colored popul lation
| can give no evidence hereafter Everything
| have had, both as rrgardslife and property
| has been perle,l in this cause; and I feel an'
lthiLk that ! understand, not to be egotistic
1 what should he the true doctrine bf t..S que
| ton, md what, epurse Of policy wo lld Ires'f
| III the nrf1eioration and ultimate elevation
.not only of The tolored mnn,;but of theI Igrea
mass Of the people lofthe United 1Statcsl gr1
r., saytthat if Lhape not given evidenep thn
| am q friend 80. .humanitysnnd, especinllydf
friend Of the colprel people,sm my pnst con
duct, there is, nothing that / can do th"t
would prove it. All that 4 posscssed--li'e
liberty. rropertv--have been put in connec
ton with that question, when'l had every in
ducrment held out to take the other course
i by adopting which would have accomplished
perhaps, all that the. most ambitious might
| have desired If know. myself andpthe feel
| ings of my own heart, they have been for tlir
'o"rrd man. have owned slaves, and
ought slaves but nrvcrIsold one. u might
ay, however, that practically, so far as my
connection with slavps1has gone, have been
her slave, instead Of their being mine -
ONE have even followed ME here, while
'ihers arc occuwingand ENJOYING tnvutop
rty, with my consent Z, For the color d tee
ny mans, INV time. my .ail have been per
| lied. ind now AZ this late dnv, after giyinb
evidence that is tangible, that is prat eel, ]
am froc to s"v that do not like It lie ar
raigneh hv some, who can glt up han nlsonry
0 ,nd perol Is. md deal n rhetoric an talk
about abstract ileas Of liberty. who never
perilrd life, lih' rty or property I'D Th kind ol
theoretical, hollow friendship amounts tnlhut
very little. While sly that I'm a friend to
hr,cuortd race ! do not want to- Sa'lopt ii
,nlirv thnt believe will end in contest he
tween the races, which, it persisted in, will
result in the cx:ermina;on of the ono or the
olbcra Col forbid that | should be engaged
n s,ich work.
Now it is always best to talk practically
md IN cpmIn.n Srllsr WAY. | have said
and rrpea, here, thatSit cololtd men in lie
United States could find no other Noses nor
any other, Moses that would be more able and
efficient than myself, would be their Moses
to lcaI them from bondige to freedom that
| would pass them from II land where they
had lived in slavery to a land, if it we're in
on .ach, of frpel-m would be. willing 10
IA itan throltYh ii Red Sea to the Land ol
Promise to til land Of liberty. VA! 70.
Put I am not willing unlrr either circsn-
stancc. to adopt policy which | believe will
I -. ~ III, 1;f, .,
shr ding of his blooi. ] think know what !
say Feel what | say, and ] feel well rs
s,,red that if .tlel psliisy, nrsed ~ some be
persisted II, II WIT Result III .great fijfiiryto
i!re white MS well as the colorcd man,, There
il 4 great deal Of talk about the sword in one
h md accomplishing IN end and the bal loi
accomplishing another at the ballot box. =
These things are all very well, and sometimes
have forcihlc application. We talk about
iustce: we talk about right; we say that the
white man has been in the wrong il keeping
the black min in slavery as long as he has.
That Is all true Again, we talk about. thu
declaration Of Independence, and equality
before the law You understand all lh,t, and
know how appropriate it is But now, let us
look e,ch other in the, face; let us 20 to the
gre.it mass Of colored men throughout the
slave States; let us take the condition, in
which they are Mt The pr sent timr--and it is
had enough we all know-and suppose by
some magic touch, YOU could say to every
one, You shall vote to morrow, how much
would that aincliorate their conlit on at this
time? Now let us get closer m TO. III sub!
icct, and tn k about it What reat OH b S tie
c5lored man and the white man .h@etoiore
occupied in the SourhY Iopposel slavery on
Two grounds first it was Il great monopoly.
enabling 'hose who controlled il to constitute
nm Earistocritcv, enabling the few to derive
reat profits, and rule the many with an IRON
rod, as it were; and HAT is one great oRjcc-
ton 10 it, in a Government, its. being q mo.
nopolv, | was opposed to il; secondly, upon
nha ,tBstract principle In getting clear Of IL
m nnpolv, we were getting. clear Of slavery at
the same time. So ,yon see there we're two
en,is accomplished in the accomplishment of
the one. .'.a'' '.- vi .,....tr.-ii.,tu
Mr.. Douglass-Mr. President, Go you
The President--Iam not quite through vt
Sayery h is been abolished p A great national
guaranty has been given, one that cannot be
marked. was yptting ut the relaiio,
EXISTED between the white man and the col
orcd MAN. a very small proportion Of white
persons, compared with the whole npmber Of
such owned the colnred people Of the South
might instance the State of tennessee, in
illustration. There was n m iiority OF the peo-
pie non slnveholdtrs, and yet the slave power
controlled that State. Let ms talk abcut this
matter ns il was Althoue h the co!ored man
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