The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-01-25
Fred Douglass.

We find the following efuson of the negro
Douglass going the rounds of the Republican
press We only publish it 20 show what negro
can lie app'ouded for saying, fnd TO ask. what
white man outside of The Relullican ,rty, would
have been permitted TO have said the same, dur
ing the time thai that party melted out Justice
throuEh Militia! --""'S7 Have not men been
dragged 10 iails, and GROW ded into nilitlrv Ias-
tiles for much less offence, or indeed for no of.
thnce at all! hut merely for dlj&ence OF opin-
ion, and in many instances tor the sole and only
purpose of gratifying SINE malicious neishbor -?
and yet this negro can Charge by inucnlo the
President Of the United States with icing party
TO an estimation, before Cincinnati audience
and be appluudtd therefor. 1t is rot stated
whether The audience was white or black we
hope, however, for the credit Of the whites. thai
they we've black We fad the following in the
Baltimore AmrricGa, Of the 10Th of January,
1867:
VICE PRESIDENTS.
Frederick Douglass, in a lecture delivered at
Cincinnati, few days since said
am Tor aholishng the office of Vice President
Of the United States Let us have one with
dents. They are useless rcumbrauce What
use the fathers saw for them | cannot imagine.
There would lie AS much use for selecting n So
eond husband for woman at her first marriage.
ii rs easy enough iu fiji a vacnaCy when 1t Oc-
ours. The Wee President Is lie Presidency
through n contingency aud locks ~ ii with
longing eyes The argument against the Vice
Presidency is very striking one. The office
of President is very attractive one, and
10 T.
know what men will do. Men have shed
blood 10 attain crowns. A man has already OBJ.
tanned the Presidency through nm assassination.
sensation | am OPT osed 10 placing Vice
President behind the chair Of tie President with
in stri%ipg distance Of him who sees in the mans
life the only barber 70 the position which it is
natural he should covet. think the President
Will tie safer when the shaGow Of the Vice Presl-
dent s'aIl cease 10 fall upon his chair APP
pause 1t is n marvellous fact that in no case
has NiceS'reSdent of the Unhed States, who
has become President carried out the policy of
the party that elected him. Gen. Harrison
died, ana was succeeded yTyler. His death has
always been mystery. Gen. Taylor, whom
the bullets of all MeXicnns could not kill, MS soon
as It was asccrtainpd he was opposed to the pay
ment of the Texas Debt often millions, and in fl
vor Of admitting California rs Free State, sud-
denly died, and was succeed ed by a man whom
| need not mention as his name may be found
signed to the Fugitive Slave Law.
Even James Buchanan was not considered
quite sound by the slave oliGarchy, and they at
tempted to poison him at the National Hotel, in
order 10 have his place filed by Younger and
stronger man, whose fitness for their work has
since been proved Breckenridge but in this iu-
stance olson met its match-old Buck was too
much for it. Laughter and great applause. +
do not mean to say that Andy johnson had
VT do ,l,al nn & I l,.,. 7
do say that the men who murdered Mr.. Lincoln
knew Andrew johnson then as we know him
now.
Then.let us have done with the Vice Plesden-
cy. don't want, when am made President
of the United States. to have any Vice President
standing behind me, smiling-ah, yes, smiling
and stabbing as well. [Great applause