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tion where he commits so many blum
ders, we are inclined to believe that h,
has been imposed upon. We believ,
that some one furnished him with the
data concerning Washington ant
Washingtonians. Mr.. Williams ha:
endeavored to place good and honest
men in false positions. He is full ot
prejudice and revenge. He has only
tickled the fancieS of his admirers ant
has thus brought himself down tt
shame and disgrace as a historian ant
philosopher.
GARRISON
took the ground that slavery was sup
ported by the Constitution, that it was
a covenant with death and an agree
ment with hell" that as a Christian il
was his duty to obey God, rather than
men, that his conscience was par.
amount to the Constitution, and,
therefore, his duty was to work out
side of the Constitution for the de.
struction of slavery. Charles Sumner
delivered speech before the Whig
Convention of Mass, in 1916. He
took the ground that slavery was not
covenant with death or an agree
ment with hell = that he intended to
do his work for the slave inside of the
Constitution. He proposed to the
Wings as their rallying watchword,
the repeal of slavery under the Con-
stitution and laws of the Federal Gov
eminent" Discussing the methods,
he continued The time has passed
when this can be opposed on consti-
tutional grounds. 1t will not be
questioned by any competent authority
that Congress may by express legisla-
tion abolish slavery, first, in the Dis
trict of Columbia ; second, in the Ter
ritories, if there should be any third,
that it may abolish the slave trade on
the high seas between the states !;
fourth, that it may refuse to admit any
new State with a Constitution, sane
tioning slavery. Now, can it be
doubted, that the people of the free
States may, in the manner pointed out
by the Constitution, proceed to
its amendment. In 1846 Mr.. Summer
left the Whig party and gave his mag
nifcent energies and splendid talents to
the organization of the Free Soil Party
upon the principles he had failed to
educate the Wings to accept.
1t will be remembered that Mr.. Gar
rison had built his school upon the
fundamental idea that slavery was con-
stitutional, and that in order to secure
the overthrow of the institution he
was compelled to do his work outside
of the Constitution, and to effect the
good desired, the Union should be dis
solved. With these views Mr.. Douglass
had conceded at first, and into the
ranks of this party he had entered
But upon his return from England he
changed his residence and views about
the same time, and established his
home and newspaper in Rochester,
New York State. Mr.. Douglass gave
his reasons for leaving the Garrison
party as follows:
About four years ago, upon recon-
Sideration of the whole subject l be-
came convinced that there was no
necessity for dissolving the Union
between the Northern and Southern
States, that to seek this dissolution was
no part of my duty as an abolitionist;
that to abstain from voting was to
refuse to exercise a legitimate and
powerful means for abolishing slavery,
and that the Constitution of the United
States not only contained no guarantees
in favor of slavery, but on the contrary
it is, in its letter and spirit an anti
slavery instrument demanding the ab-
Olition of slavery as condition of its
own existence, as the supreme law of
the land.
The author Of "the history of the
negro race in America" concludes
after considering the above and in the
light of the past and present, that Mr..
Douglass was not the only Anti-Sla-
very man who imagined that the Con-
stitution was an Anti-Slavery instru-
ment. This was the error of Charles
Sumner. But Mr.. Douglass lived long
enough to see that he was wrong and
Mr.. Garrison right, that the dissolu-
lion of the Union was the only way
70 free his race. In his way, he did
his part, as faithfully and as honestly
Is any of his brethren in either one
If the anti-slavery parties"
Now, we doubt very much, whether
Mr., Douglass has lived long enough to
discover that he was wrong and that
dr. Garrison was right. We think
rom what appears above, as well as
rom considering the past and present,
hat Charles Sumner was right, and
he Rev. George Williams is in error.
With this review of ahe history of |
he colored race, we defy a denial. We |
an support each and every change by |
fidavits. For the good of the col
red race, we advise Mr.. Williams to
evise the second volume.
From the Sunday CALL" Indiana
oils, Sept. 18th, 1880.
Never will we forget the sang froid !
Tith which Williams waved Frederick
from the hill of eminence |
nd honor and relegated him to the
alley below. 1t was at the residence
f a very accomplished and much !
hought of lady in our city, that we
let him for the first time since his adj
ent on hoosier soil, that the incident
eferred to took place. In the course
{ a general conversation in which the
landing of various colored men in the