St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-20
AGAIN THE ENTERTAINMENT
Fred Douglass, the CoIored Ora
tor, Waves 1t on High.

tor, waves 1t on High.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 19.-There were cries
for Fred Douglass, which finally swelled
into such proportions that the colored
orator could do no less than come to the
front. He would have bowed his
thanks and retired, but the audience
insisted on speech and he was intro
duced by the chairman, as follows:
Gentlemen of the convention. / have
the honor to present to you man who
n eds no Introduction. Our friend,
Fred Douglass. [Cheers.] Mr.. Doug
lass said:
Mr.. President, l had the misfortune
last night to speak to vast audience in
the armory little below here, or above
here, and broke my voice so that | feel
wholly unable to address you any more
than to express my thanks to you for
the cordial welcome and the earnest call
you have given me to this platform. l
have only one word to say, and it is this,
that hope this convention will make
such record. in in its proceedings as to
put it entirely out of the power of the
leaders of the Democratic party and the
leaders of the Mugwump party Laugh
ter. to say that they see no difference
between the Republican, in respect to
the class | represent, and the Demo-
cratic party. Applause. | have great
respect for certain quality that have
seen distinguished in the Democratic
party. 1t is it's
FIDELITY TO ITS FRIENDS
[laughter]; its faithfulness to those
whom it has acknowledged as its mas
tiers for the last forty years. Laughter
and applause.] They were faithful
mean the DemOcratS-were faithful to
the slave-holding class during the exist
ence of slavery. They were faithful
before the war. They were faithful
during the war. They gave them all
the encouragement that they possibly
into the halter. Laughter and APP
plause.] They were faithful during the
period of reconstruction. They have
been faithful ever since. They are
faithful to-day to the solid South. l be-
lieve that the Republican party will
prove itself equally faithful to its
friends [cries of good, good, and those
friends during the war were men with
black faces. [Cries of that's right'']
They were eyes to your blind; they
were shelter to your shelterleSS sons
when they escaped from the line of the
rebels: they are faithful to-day, and
when this republic was at its EXTREMIST
need, when its fate seemed to tremble
in the balances, the crowned heads and
the enemies of Republican institutions
were saying in Europe. AHA, aha, this
great Republican bubble is about to
burst;" when your armies were melting
away before the fire and peStilence of
rebellion, you called upon your friedds,
your black friends, when your star
spangled banner, now glorious, was
trailing in the dust
8 HEAVY WITH PATRIOT BLOOD,
you called upon the negro-yes, Abra-
ham Lincoln called upon the negro
[great applause] to reach forth his iron
arm and clutch with his steel fingers
your faltering banner. And they came.
theycame, 100000 strong. Loud cheers
Let us remember those black men in
the platform that you are about to pro-
mulgate. and let us remember these
black men are stripped of their cOnSti-
grand standard bearer which you will
present to the country, leave these men
no longer to wade to the ballot-boX
through blood, but extend over them
the arm of this republic and make their
pathway to the ballot-boX as straight
and as smooth and as safe as any other
citizens. [Cheers.l Be not deferred
from duty by the cry of "bloody shirt"
[Cheers.]
LET THAT SHIRT BE WAVED
so long as blood shall be found upon it.
Cheers. A government that can give
liberty in its constitution ought to have
power to protect liberty in its admins
tration. [Cheers.l will not take up
your time. have got my thought be-
fore you. l speak in behalf of the
millions who are disfranchised to-day.
CHEERS and cries of ''go on, Douglass,
DOuglaSS':