News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-07
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DepeW Answers IngersoI.

| DepeW Answers IngerSoII.
An audience of about 500 white
and colored people. with many Span
iards, Cubans and Haytians in it.
filled the large hall of Cooper Union,
New York, on a recent evening, to
hear Frederick Douglass lecture on
"Hayti and the Haytians. Chaun-
cey M. Depew presided and intro
duced the speakers in his usual hap
Ply style. Mr.. Douglass said among
other things: What will Hayti's fut-
ure be? | believe it is assured. She
may stumble or fall now and then,
but she is moving on. Hayti's great
danger is revolution. There are too
many enterprising gentlemen in this
country with wares to dispose of.
One bought an old monitor of the
government for 500 dollars and
wanted my help to sell it to Hayti.
There would be fewer revolutions
there if not so much right of asylum
were afforded the revolutions in this
country.
+" AS to President HypoIite, what
ever may be said of him, | affirm no
man more fully understands or deep
ly feels the need of his country. TAP
plause-l He has been denounced in
C1T1s country us Il cruel I1TUnstrr.- NO
judgement has ever been more I'M
deserved. While | was minister to
Hayti, | was charged with being a
friend to Hayti | am friend to
Hayti, butnotin the same sense that
my enemies would have you believe.
| am friend to Hayti and to every
land which bore a yoke of slavery
and.cast it off, and so is President
Harrison"
At this point the applause was
deafening and continuous, and every
mention of the Presidents name was
cheered to the echo through the lect-
ure.
Il know him well, and no trace of
any prejudice, especially color preiu-
dice, have | ever found in that man.
Applause. was sent to Havti on
no mean or mercenary mission. The
spirit of the Presidents advice to me
was in keeping with his noble and up
right character. He told me as far
as L could dose consistently with nv
duty to the United States, to do all /
could for Hayti.'
Col. Robt. G. Ingersoll spoke for
about three-quarters of an hour in
his most popular style. His speech
Was brilliant with wit, and was
marked also bypathos and elouuence.
moving his audience with intense
feeling and enthusiasm. He made a
vigorous plea for the rights of man.
but also made vigorous attack on
the Christian religion, and called
upon the negroes not to follow the
God OF the whites or any God who
had permitted slavery in the world.
Before announcing the next feature
on the program, Mr.. Depew said he
had heard Col. Ingersoll on many oc-
casions, but rarely had he listened to |
him when he was so eloquent as on
the present occasion. HIS tribute to |
the true dignity of man, the equal |
rights of all, and the uplifting of
every race to better relations with
each other had never been exceeded.
Mr.. Depew said that he
begged, however, to differ from Col.
lhSOloOll vi OIe pOluU, anu III so DO
ing would call the attention of the
;olored people, in their search for the
ruth, to the fact that slavery was
in the world when Christ
appeared on the earth, and Just so
ar as Christianity had extended sIav-
cry had disappeared.
He desired, also, to call the atten-
ton of the cOlOred man in his studies |
Of the progress of emancipation of
the race to another fact, that the con-
science of the north was reused to
the point at which il brought the
war of the rebellion and -emancipated
The slave mainly by the teachings of
the northern Christian pulpit. This
unexpected defense of the Christian
religion appealing in such a practi-
;al form to the best reasoning facul-
lies of the audience excited the great
and an unusually stir
ing scene resulted, the applause last
ny several minutes
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