The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

shall Douglass IN Washington; here let
me be Fred Douglass again" The
meeting between the former master and
former servant was very affecting. The
interview was very pleasant through
out. Mr.. Douglass stated that in his
book, written soon after his escape, he
had made some statements that lapse
of time and reflection had caused
him to feel he had better have
left unssid, and for aught that he said
that was unjust to his old master or
had wounded his feelings he begged
his forgiveness. rar SOL .ss-a
In the afternoon Mr.. Douglass adj
dressed large audience OF both white
and colored people. He began by sd.
.verting to the difficult and embarrass-
ing position in which he was placed.
He said he did not come here to make
speech. He was not here to fan the
flames of sectional luminosity, nor to
create ill-feeling, nor yet to recount
the wrongs inflicted on his race for two
hundred years, nor to GO into antiquity
for matter to stir the blood and rouse
the passions, nor to indulge in q po-
Constitution OF the United States.
Il come, first of ALL" he said, ito
see my old master, from whom l have
been separated for forty one years, to
shake his hand, to look into his kind
old face AID see IT beaming with light
from the other world. have had
great joy in shaking that hand, in
looking into that face stricken with
age and disease, but aglow with the
light that comes from an honest heart,
and rejecting the glory from the
spirit world, upon whose border he is,
and where We shall soon again meet.
FortJ-one years ago left him. ! left
ham, mot because | loved Cesar less,
but became / loved Rome more"
Mr.. Douglass then referred briefly to
his escape and 10 the motive that actu-
ated MIN. His second reason for max
ing this visit, he said, was that he
loved Maryland and the eastern shsre /;
eastern shore corn and eastern shore
pork had given him his muscle. MIR.
Douglass then passed into IN euiogy Of
the white race and its achieveme.'s'
and said TO the colored people ,aat they
were IN c0ntacp win the most lndoml-
table, the most enlightened race in the
world, and that he would be false to
his own race IL be did not tell them
inst where they stood; what an i'm
mense distance they were behind the
white people. He did not believe the
colored people were fundamentally in.
ferior to the whites, but they are,
nevertheless, practically inferior. We
must not talk about equality until We
can do. what white people can do. As
long IS they can build vessels and We
cannot, We are their interiors; as
long 90 they can build railroads aad we
cannot, we are theis interiors; 20 long
Is t.aey can found governments and We
cannot, We are their interiors. II in
twenty years from now the colorsd
race, a. . rice, has nos sdgsnced be-
yond ths paint where 90 was when
emancipated, il 10 . doomed race. The
Question now Il, viii the black man
90 as much NV for his master thini-
self as he used to do for his old mas-
tsfih Do yon, my colored frieads get
up As early now 20 work for yourselves
a. you used 10 DO to work for that stern
old Roman, Samuel Hsmbletonf Re
was quite severe upon Prof. John n.
Langston for maintaining that the ma
latto is the superior Of the black nAa
intellectually. He told the colorsd
people they must get money and keep
u II they wished 70 elevate themseives.
Ons trU1ble with them 10 thst tAey al
Ways want to be going sonewhere, And
do not stay in one place o. q one tang
long enough 70 sceumuiate. a poor
people are always . despised people
To be respected thsy mnss get noney
snd property. WithoutT money thsre
h no leisure without leisure no thought;
without thought no progress. Their
preachers should tell them more
about Whist 70 do and less shout
What to feel. Thsy Should sultissis,