Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-11-22

4 erTTw Tsysl-rryrr-FTrad. DougIass audience
/ on VVsaneslay evening, beth in raint Of
numbers and ras psciabill1ys vasa rare com
/ plinent to any speaker. me church was
crowded fun, even the gallery being oecu-
pied by as large a number as could be COM
] fortably seated The youth and beauty, the
/ talent and culture Of our community were
largely represented, and to say that Is TO say
/ that the audience was such as IS not often
I exssIled In any town or city. The exercises
were opened with prayer By President AeE-
rick, after which Mr.. Douglas was introduc-
ed BY Capt. Everett, President Of the Lee
tura Association. AGr. D. Is not first class
reader, but every sentence he eutters bears the
stamp Of genius, and in eLtemporaneous
speaking he manifests the style and manner
Of the born orsltor. His voice has great vol
ume and power and his enunciatiOn Is TO
tund and pleasing, The speaker treated his
subject, aSeIf made men, p IN a literary style
and one OF hne elegance and ability max
ing occasional applications Of his reasoning
to the circumstances Of his race and the po-
Htical topics Of the day. Speaking Of insti-
tutions Of learning as auxiliariesi in the form
alton Of character he said that slavery had
been his school, and it was a very poor one
The manner In when he learned to write
was by deeipheriny and initiating the chalk
bers In q ship yard, finding time for this i'm
provsment while the worEmen were at din
ner and he let TO watch their tools. His
knowledge OF arithmetic was procured un-
der similar difficulties and obtained by sim
liar helps.
He believed in giving all q fair and equal
chance 70 carve out their fortunes. The in
qulry Is now being anxiousiy made By the
American PEOPLE, what shall we do with
the uegpoT" His answer was ''aave done
doing with him. 1t Is your doing that has
played the mischief with him. Give him
fair chance and let him alone. Ifyou see him
going TO work and honestly making nv-
ing, let him alone. II you see him going to
to school. let him go. II you see him going
to the ballot box to vote like man and try
ing to be q man, let him go"
1Gr. Douglas secuted the idea promulgated
on the stump IN this State that his poor de-
spised race should get possession OF and rule
this great country inhabited By thirty mil
Lions Of white people. BE admOnished the
people Of his own color that If they would
improve in usefulness they must educate,
but meant this for whites as well. The Amer
lean people have hitherto treated the Afrl-
can as the ugly baby which, as the story says, |
they put under the bed whenever there was
company. Herefsrred in appropriate terms
the ulBakuLes4 the GzEGAAHlQ4 pA bLAo me-
gro troops from the Grand Review at WASH
ington, and said there was time when
there was room under our nag for men OF all
races and all were welcomed
1Ir. Douglas peroration was delivered e1- |
temporaneously, and was very eloquent
He thanked Heaven that 2l6,G00 freemen In 4
had gone to the ballot box and voted 1
for. equal rights, and though the measure 1
was defeated he believed al would yet come /
out right. he warned his auditors that God
is yet just and that he holds 8 boIt in reserve 4
that he win surely let fan upon Us if we
persistently refuse to be 50. Slavery had
been abolished as a military necessity, and A
though he was profoundly grateful for the 1
freedom Of his race, he realized that it was
evolved rather from the dire necessities of
Ear than froms any sense Of Justice. He A
urged the American people TO seize the ap-
portunity now. while the whips and scourges
Of the Almighty are not upon US, to do right
from choice.
The lecture was a very fine intellectual
treat, and win do much to diEsipafe the ig-
norant. absurd and unehristian prejudices
against the coIored race.