The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-02-15

iOf1atiOn and ultimate elevation not only
of the colored, butOf the great mass OF
people of the United States. l say that
i'll have not given evidence that am
friend Of humanity, and especially
f.iend of the colOled man, III nay past
conduct, there Is nothing that L .can 90
that would. reps a., all that ! possess
ed, life, liberty and property, have been
put in connection with that question
when I had every inducement held out
to take the other course, by which !
would have accomplished perhaps all
that the most ambitious might have de-
sired.
While say that I am a friend to the
colored race, I do not want to adopt
policy that believe will end in con-
test between the races, which, If persist
ed in, will result in the determination OF
one or the other. God forbid that
should be engaged in such a work now.
1t /; always best to talk practically and
in q common sense way. have said
and repeat here, that if the colored men
in the United States could find no other
Noes, nor any Moses that would be
able and sufficient than myself, would
be their Moses to lead them from bond
age to freedom; that would pass them
f,Om land where they had Lived in sin-
very. TO land. if il Wee in our reach, OF
eedom. l would he willing to pass
with them through the Red Sea to the
Lind Of promise, to the land OF liberty.
But / am not willing. under either
circumstance. to adopt policy which I
believe will only result in the sac. iiice If
his lie and the shedding his blood. /
think know wha, / say. 1 feel wha. I
say. and feel assured that, if the policy
urged by some be persisted in, it will re-
suit in &. cat injury to the white Is well
q, the coioGed man.
Thee is a great deal Of talk about the
sword i'm one hand accomplishing an end
and the ballot accomplishing another ut
the ballot-box. These things are all
very well, and sometimes have fOrcible
application. We talk about justice, we
talk about right; we say that the white
man has been wrong in keeping the
blacks in slavery as long as he has,
That is all true. Again we talk about
the Declaration of Independence. equai:-
ty before the law You understand all
that, and know how toappreciate it, but
now let us look each other in the face !;
4, let US 60 to the great mass of coiored men
throughout the slave States; let US take
the condition in which they are at the
present time, and it is bad enough we all
know, and suppose by some magic touch
you could say to every one, "You shall
vote Tomorrow" how much would that
ameliorate their condition ut this time?
Now let us get closer up to the subject,
and talk about it. What relation has
the colored man and white man hereto
fore occupied in the South? l opposed
slavery on two grounds: First, it was a
great monopoly, enabling those who con-
trolled it to constitute an aristocracy, en-
abling the few to derive great profits and
rule the many with an iron rod as it
were, and that is one great objection to it
in a Government-itsb being monopoly.
l was opposed to it upon the abstract
principle. In getting clear Of monopo-
~ We We're getting clear Of slavery Mt the
same time. So you see there were two
ends accomplished in the accomplish
ment of the one.
Mr.. Douglass-Mr. President, do you
The President-I am not quite through
yet. Slavery has been abolished. A
great national guarantee has been given,
one that cannot he revoked. was get
ting ut the relation that existed between
the white man and the co!oscl m.ril. a
very small proportion of white persons
compared with the whole number Of
such owned the coiored people OF the
South. might cite the State OF Tenlies-
see a. IN illustration. There were TWEEN
ty-seven ~ Observation-Disclosures, and yet
the slave power controlled that State
Let us talk about this matter Us it is
Although the cologcd man was i'll slavery
there, and owned Is property in the
sense and in the language OF that locality
and of that community, yet i'll cOlnpar-
ing his condition and his position with
the lron-slaveholuec, he usually estima-
ted his importance just in the proportion
to tile number of slaves that his master
owned with the non-slaveholder. Have
you never lived upon u plantation?
Mr.. Douglass have, your Excellen-
cy.
The Prcsident-Wheny you would look
over and see man who had a large fam
lily struggling hard upon i poor piece of
land you thought a g. cat deal less OF him
than you did OF your master?
Mr.. Douglass-Not /.
Tire Pfesident-Well, know such
was the case with large majority of you
i'm those sections where such Is the case
We know there IL All enmity. we know
tiie.e is "A hate. The poof white man, Oh
the othe, hand, wa, opp ,sed to the slave,
aud hi- master, for The co.o.cd maj and
his master combined kept him in s.ayc.y.
h.. &C.. Iv.ng him 0. a .air participation
IN IN. L,s,.- aud the p.DIuct.ons u TIA.
rich iand- 81 the ;. 'uiis.
D,a'l yoa know tina. me c5sorel man,
in going ~ hant a ra-s.te., a. meg call II.
D- the next yea, p.sse--sai hirsns ~
HAN vino owned .iaS.z. Rather IiE1n N
nas who did not. know the Laes .. all
cyenL..
NJ. Douglass Because they treated
him be.tei
The Prcsidcnt-Thcy did not consider
1T quite as respectable. to hire to man
who did not own negroes Us to hire to
one who did
Mr. Doug!ass-B Because he wouldn't be
treated 50 well.
The Picsident-Thcn that is another
argument in favor Of what am going to
say. 1t shows that colorcd men apDre-
clated the slave.owner more highly than
he did the man who did not own slaves.
Hence the cnmity between the colored