Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-03-02
ALL PAID TRIBUTE.
The Late Frederick Douglass Honorcd
In Death.

IN Dcutn.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26--Not since the
unveiling of the Lincoln emancipation
statue in 1878 has there been such
popular outpouring of colored people
TO pay tribute to benefactor of
their race than was witnessed Monday
in and about the Metropolitan African
Methodist Episcopal church, where the
funeral services over the remains of
Frederick Douglass took place The
body was taken from Cedar Hill, near
Anacostia, the home of the deceased,
at $50 o'clock Monday morning, and
reached the church about o:3O. From
that hour till 1880 in the afternoon
thousands of persons, including many
white people, passed in double file
through the building and viewed the
remains, which were in charge of a
guard of honor composed of members
cf a colored camp of the Sons of Vet
erans.
The altar and reading desk were
covered with floral tributes, the most
prominent of which was magnificent
shield composed of roses, orchids and
palms, sent by the Haytien govern
ment through Minister Hientjens. An
other tribute was from Il. +. Auld, the
son of Frederick Douglass old master,
who is now captain of the eastern po-
lice station in Baltimore.
The services were simple but appro-
pirate. The funeral sermon was
preached by Rev. j. G. Jenifer, pastor
| of the church He took for his text:
Know We not that there is prince
and a great man fallen this day in
Israel" Rev. II. E. Stevenson, pastor
of the white church in Anacostia at
tended by Mrs. Douglass, followed
with brief address at the request of
members of the family. Rev. J. H..
Rankin, president of Howard univer-
sity, also delivered brief eulogy of
the deceased.
A letter from Mrs. Douglass asking
that a place be given in the programme
to Mr.. John Hutchinson, of Boston,
Mass, was read and served as an
introduction to Mr.. Hutchinson,
white-haired and white-bearded, the
last of the famous Hutchin-
son family of abolition singers,
who, with his sister, accompanied Mr..
Douglass to England on his mission
against slavery. Mr.. Hutchinson told
some touching little stories of his life
long friendship with the deceased, and
then sang two requiem solos.
Secretary Nicholas, of the Haytien
legation in the United States repre-
senting Minister Hientjens, a tall
very black man, delivered brief eulo'
gy in French, which was translated by
MIR. Durham, ex-United States min
lister to Hayti. Secretary Nicholas
expressed the sorrow of the Haytier
government and of it's legation
here, at the death of Mr.. Douglass
Bishop Wayman in his eulogy merely
named the great men from number
of the states of the union, and wounc
up with the remark: And last, but MOI
least, Maryland has her Frederick
Douglass"
Miss Susan b. Anthony then arose
amid stir of interest, to read a letter
from Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
highly eulogistic of the deceased
Miss Anthony prefaced the reading o
the letter with some remarks of hel
own. Mrs. Stanton, she said, was be
loved by Frederick Douglass more
|
suffragists. On last Wednesday, as sh,
sat with Frederick Douglass on tn,
platform of the women's council, sh,
had told him that he must be presen
at the home of Elizabeth Cady StantoI
on November Il next, to congratulate,
her on having rounded out four
score years Il shall be there" h,
said, land l shall be ready will
my words" The letter of Mrs. Stan
ton recalled incidents in her associa
ton with Mr.. Douglass and told of he
grief at his death. Mrs May Wrigh
Sewal spoke feelingly of Mr.. Douglas
who, she said, had not only opened u
the way to the emancipation of his owI
people but to the emancipation o
women.
The hymn Seeking For Me- was fol
lowed with an eloquent prayer by Rev
Anna Ii. Shaw, and then Bishop WI
liams, of the co.ored Methodist Epis
eopal church. delivered the benediC
i ton The services lasted nearly thre
. hours.
/. Mrs Douglass and the children an
other relatives OF her husband filed ou
of the church and remained in
room below until the congregatio
had departed. Then the remains wer
borne to the hearse by eight colore
=. letter-carriers and after the family
e friends and others had entered the ca
# riages waiting for them, the funerf
= procession moved to the Pcnnsylvani
r. railroad station where the casl<et wa
$ placed on board the funeral train. Th
+ train soon left for Rochester, \. Y.
. SAD ACCIDENT