Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-22

tice and he was foreman) agreed among ourselves that quito likely Brown would be heard from somewhere later. We'll, sure enough, he was, ss all the world knows, for in n fortnight or two the news of the Harper's Ferry raid was sent over the country. A few days afsr that 1t became unsafe for Douglass to remain in the Unit ed States, and he was got across the NJ agara river to Clifton, Canada. There he staid for some weeks till enough money could be raised to get him to England. There he remained until the excitement over his supposed implication in John Browns conspiracy blew over. I have never known just how much Douglass knew about the Harper's Ferry raid. but suppose he knew all about it. It was my duty to act as messenger between Koch ester and Clifton while Douglass was at the latter place. I carried letters to him and brought letters from him, and it was I who carried the money to him when 1t was finally raised that enabled him to cross the sea. During his absence Julia Griffith and myself ran the paper, the name of which had been changed to Fred Douglass Paper. When l saw Douglass last year at the Worlds fair, we talked all this over, and Douglass seemed to be in- tensely impressed by the enormous changes that had taken place since the days of tho old North Star, changes in tho bringing about of which he certainly had a great deal to dc"
 Douglass and His Family.
 It appears from what is said by those who remember Douglass and his family in the days before the war that, although they were not received socially, excepting by the Quakers and others who were ardent abolitionists, they were by them accorded every courtesy that was extended to any white family. The first Mrs. Douglass
 was full blooded negress. She was not her husbands equal intellectually by any means, and she did not care to go with
 him to all the places from which he re- ceived invitations. He was personally very
 popular, even among proslayery men. This was largely due to his unyarying suavity and his absolute mastery of himself. It
 is remembered with great unanimity by all his old time acquaintances with whom have talked that he never lost his tenn per in any discussion of the abolition ques- tion; that he was always courteous and gentlemanly even under the most trying
 circumstances, and that he counted among
 his warmest personal friends some of the
 men who were strongest in their opposi-
 tion to the movement for the freeing of the slaves. For some years Rochester was an- nually agitated from center to circumfer- ence by the question us to where and how the children of Frederick Douglass should be educated. His daughter, Rose, was one of the brightest young girls in the city,
 and Douglass objected to her being sent to
 the school which was provided especially for the children of colored parents. One year the majority of the school board were | proslavery men, and they decided that l Rose must go to the negro school. Doug lass had no idea of submitting to the de- | cision, and so he went before the board. | The Cloquence of that man" said 0 l venerable member of that old time school board yesterday, ''in pleading that his | child should have all the privileges as to | education that would have been accorded her if her skin had been white was simply l wonderful. have never listened to any. | thing approaching it either before or since. | Yet at no time did he make use of any | harsh terms; at time was there the faintCst trace of bitterness in his words He simply set before us his desires as q l resident and n father with all the skill
 that master of language could command | 1 admit that we had definitely determined | not to give him what he asked, though | am ashamed of it now, but we could not | resist his persuasive words. When wG l came to take n vote, permission for hi:
 daughter, Rose, to attend the public | granted"
 Douglass present wife, a white woman
 was born in Honcoye, n few miles souti
 of herc but few Rochesterians know her. | l. ID. MARSHALL