The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-20
FRED DOUGLASS.
RETURN TO HIS OLD EAsrERN-sHoRZ HOME
AFTER An ABSENCE OF FoETY-oSE YEARS



AFTER AN ABSENCE OF FoRTY-oSE YEARS
GOOD ADVICE TO MEN OF HIS RACE.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Juno 10. 1871
special despatch from ST. Michaels. Talbot comfy
Md, TO the Sun ays:-Fred Douglass United States
Marshal for District Of Columbia, paid visit tor
the hrst time he lett here fortv-one years ago.
TO the scenes OF his youth. MI Douglass some time
ago expressed wish TO visit his former master,
Captain Thomas Aud. residcn, OF 81 MichaelS
Captain AUD had expressed his willingness and de-
sire TO meet his old servant, and this visit Of
Douglass TO ST. Nchaels mainly for
tina, purpose. He was received BY Judge
William Il. Brun, Captain Auld's son-in-iaw, who
addressed him as "Aarshal Douglass" mo, no."
expostulated the Marshal, ~ am Marshal Douglass
IN Washington; here let me be Fred Douglass again
The meeting between tho former master and former
very affecting The interview very
pleasant Throughout. Mr. Douglass stated tina, IN his
book, written alter his escape he had made
statements that lapse Of and reflection had caused
him to fee he had better have left unsald. aud for
aught that he SAID that was unjust 10 his old master
or had wounded his feelings he begged his forgiveness
DOUGLASS AppRxss
In the afternoon Mr. Douglass addressed large
audience OF both white and colored people. he began
by advertng 10 the difficult and embarrassing position
IN which he placed He said he did not come here
10 make speech lie was not here to tan the flames
OF sectional annosity nor 10 create III icclng nor yet
10 recount the wrongs inflicted on his race for 200
years nor to go into antiquity for matter to stir the
blood aud rouse the passions, nor TO indulge In .
political haraugue nor expound the constitution Of
The United States | come. first Of all, he said,
To see my old master, from whom ! have been
separated Tor forty-one years. to shake his hand, 10
look INTO his kind old face and soc II beaming with
hight from The other world have had great JOY III
shaking that hand. looking into that face stricken
with aye and disease Out aglow with tho lsht mat
comes from an honest heart. and rejecting the glory
from ihc spirit world, upon whose border nc is ana
where We shall again meet Forty-one years ago
lott HIM. left HIM, mot because loved C1sar
less, but because loved Rome more"
Mr. Douglass then referred briefly 10 his escape and
to the motive that actuated him
HIS second, reason Tor making this visit, ho SAID,
WAS that he loved Maryland anu the Eastern shore.
Eastern shore ana Eastern shore pork had gwen
him hts muscle
BLACK Mxx PRACTICALLY INFERIOR.
Mr Douglass then passed INTO cuosy Of the whitc
and It's achievements, and said to the colorcd pco
pie that they were III contact win INC most ndoma-
bic, the most enlightened N the world ana that
he would be false his II he did tel them
just whore they stood what an immense distance they
were behind the white people He did not bcevc the
colorcd people were fundamentally inferior 10 the
whites but they are, nevertheless practically inferior
We must talk about equality until we do what
white people can do. As long as they can build
vessels and cannot arc their interiors;
as long US they can ouild railroads aud caEuoi,
We are their interiors; AZ long ss they eau found
governments and We cannot we are thor interiors Ii
In twenty years from now the colorcd race, AS raco
has advanced beyond the point whore II was when
emancpatcd. II Is doomed race. The question now
Is, VIII the black man do AS much now Tor his master
hmsel as he ueed 10 do Tor his old masterf DO you
my colored friends get up as early now 10 work for
yourselves you used 10 do to work FOR that stern old
Roman, Samuel Hambleton?
ADVICE
He quito severe upon Professor John VI. Lapgs-
ton for MAINTAINING that the uatto is the superior Of
the black man intellectually He told the coorcd peo-
pie that they must get money aud keep II II they
wished 10 elevate themselves One trouble vita them
Is that they always want 10 be going somewhere and
do not stay In place or at one time long enough 10
| accumulate. 4 poor people are always dcspised
| people. To DO respected they must get money and
property. Without money there is no lcisurc with
out leisure thought; without thought no progress.
Thor preachers should toll them about what to
do and less about what TO feel They should cultivate
not depend upon bong helped but should do tor lhem-
selves He tired Of Ethiopia holding out her hands
They should not depend upon the Lord for crythng
Tho Lord good aud Kind, but Is OF the most use 10
| those who do tor themselves. No man has right to
1.-Two unless he lives honestly, and lives honestly
! who lives upon another
He gave the colored part OF hts audience some OF
the best advice ana soundcst instruction they have
| had Tor many q day. Tho only political aiuson he
made his speech was In snyng that the Southerners
could the vote or the negroes in the southern
States FAR moro completely than Northerners could.
The coi0red man turned instincvcly tor advice and
| assistance 10 those who had been raised with him
Among others whO sought Mr. Douglass out after Liz
| address was Dir. William W. Brun, who taught hin
| reading, arithmetic and geography ltty years ago.
Marshal Douglass learned his ago from Captain Aud
who has q record OF his birth. wherein II apcars thai
"Fred Bailey was born In February 1878"