The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-06-28

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A special despatch from Talbot
county, Maryland, to tho Baltimore
S'e Of juno 18th . says Fred
Douglass, United States Marshal
for the District of Columbia, paid a
visit for the first time since he left
here, forty-one years ago, to tho
scenGs of his youth. Mr.. Douglass
soma timo ago expressed q wish to
visit his former master, Captain
THOMAS Auld, q resident of st.
A1ichacl's. Captain Thomas Aud
had expressed his willingness and
desire to meet his old servant, and
this visit of Douglass to St. Mich.
nel's was mainly for that purpose.
He was received by Judge William
Fl. Bruff, Captain Aulds son~in~law,
who addressed him us ,EtMarshal
Douglass" "No, no." oxpostulated
the Marshal, "I am Marshal Doug
lass in Washington here let mo be
Fred Douglass again" Tho meeting
between the former master and the
former servant was very affecting.
The interview was very pleasant
throughout. Mr.. Douglass stated
that in his book, written soon after
his escape, he had Tade somo state.
montr that lapse OF, time and refloc
tion hQd caused him to feel he had
better left unsaid, and for aught
that he said that was unjust to his
old master or had wounded lis feels
ipgs he begged forgiveness.
DOUGLASS ADDRESS.
I'm the aftornoon Douglass adj
dressed q large audience of both
white and colored people. He began
by adverting to the difficult and en-
barrassing position in which ho was
placed. He said he did not como
here to make sppcch. He was not
here to fan tho flames Of sectional
animosity, nor to create i'll feeling,
nor yet to recount the wrongs in
ficted on his race fer two hundred
years, nor to go into antiquity for
matter to stir the blood md rouse
tho passions, nor to indulge in q
political harangue, nor to .expound
tic constitution of tho United
States. come, first Of all, he said,
to see my old master, from whom I
have been separated for forty-ono
years, to shake his hand, to look
into his kind old faco and see it
boaming with light from tho other
world. I have had great Joy in
shaking that had, in looking into
THAT face stricken with age and dis>
ease, 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 whero we shall soon again
meet. Forty one years ago left
him. I left him, ."not because +
loved Caesar less but because L
loved ROmo more
Mr.. Douglass than referred briefly
to his escape and to the motive that
actuatod him.
His second reason for making
this visit, he said, was that he ssloyed
Maryland and the Eastern shore.
Eastorn shore corn and Eastern
shore pork had given him his
muscle y n
BLACK MEN PRACTICALLY INFERIOR:
Mr.. Douglass thon passed into q
ellogy of tho white race and it's
achievements, and said to the
colored people th@t they were in con-
tact with the most indomitable, the
most enlightened rage of men in the
world, and that he would bo falso to
his own race if hc did not tell them
just where they stood what an inn
mense distance they were behind
the white people. He did not be-
lieve tho colorcd people wero funaa-
mentally inferior 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 as they can
build vessels and we, cannot, we are
their interiors as long as they can
build railroads and we cannot, we
are their interiors as long as they
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