The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-25
HONOR OF DOUGLASS
Memorial Services foi the Great
Negro Emancipation.
RECORD or An ACTIVE LIFE.
born 81 SLAVES and tor Eighteen Years
. slave Him~eIf- Hi- FI2lst for t<ss
AbollfI0E Of slavery.

\ fitting trfhszse Hzs yes ss<-1s9 Tai1 -
fhs lzsa Fres3ey5k Douglass. fae sresteEr
ssegyp ia AFneyfca1 hfEgQws - TIE eo8arezf
sseogs5e ~ SearlRe - ao w1th rnaEy oth%rs
Assemble " the SeastEs 1heat@r ard R1si9
q memorial Ee-Eaee froFa - H. the after
s1sen uEfa T. Tbs EsragraEane vas deep
aa-sce0F1 Nrfta sergelee DUE fags nseEsry
a nan such as vas Freserbsk Douglass.
The interior % ihe Greater w@x arzssef %
raoarniag az 10 fren1 o. the stag vas
safs-Elze p1rfrals q Douglas andoE either
side - fhs sfags burg Anaerkea' erah3esa.
tasa Stars ard stripes The &ud4ence wss
ToR large ozlrE ~ The snelernencg % the
weather On rye stage wers. among
cfksr<s Aayo- Ffaelp~ James Leddg Rev
Alien NheleX. aasfor of fhe african
Methodist esurch ~ seattle Re7 Ge9fge
=. Tslleg II Tacoma r. r. Cayton. edttor
% the SEATTLE F1spgb!sean
Editor Caytsu E<eSlted. lie said thai
TIE Coi0re8 people ard fbe other admirers
o. fhe late Fresertek Douglass had gath
cred ToT the purpose % aoSne honor 10
fhs memory ~ America grand old msn.
seattle said Mr. C#gsoE. "r1ourns tha
les 81 tae Hon. Frederic J. Grant, ard
g. doing - rnoarns the loss % noble and
grand man. TIE eglorea people o. the
world. ard more particularly those % the
United States. today mourn ard Hlu for
ever mourn the loss Of their great Doug
IsnMr'
The services opened with rnusfc IS the
EIaito orchestra and choir led - Mrs.
Lee harrington. vino sang. II Will Extol
Thee 3" Rev. s. Collins offered up "A
prayer. ard Rev. Allen Whaiey vas then
introduced as the first speaker
Seventy eight Years ago. Rev WfaIey
sald. on the shores ~ Eastern Maryland
y male babe was born The bluod 81 the
negro flowed h. his veins - ne vas
horn. 20 b. lived for eighteen years ~ hts
hfe-3n slavery. No mother. 80 father
teaderly reared hiFn for Frederick I,ossx-
lass knew not his father and had but
recollection of hls mother Then tlfe
speaker reviewed Douglass ufe. told o. his
escapes. his speeches in favor Of the as.o-
ltinn Of slavery. tte wonderful work ~
had accomplished while associated wgth
the antt~slavery soefety. the sensation
which followed the publishing 81 his own
life, and o. his being forced as = result 20
fee 20 England There BE- met great men
aBa studied fheu reformed 20 gh4R coun-
try more determined than ever 70 Grht for
the froe1orn ~ the slaves. Aast a second
time hs had 10 go 70 England hseause f.
vas believed h figured ga the great blow
stTlck At iiaTpeF's Ferry. bat he came
hack ard accomplished the great aIrn %
bis lfe iy Inducing Abraham Lincoln 60
Issue the ernanc5 uation proclamation.
When the war broke ouf 81 vas due %
Douglass that the FIFTY fourth ard F8fty-
ffth MaEsachusettH regiments we're or
raoized, and history has recorded the
nahle ~ork which the col8re8 members -
those regiments accomplished. From that
time until his death Douglass spent hiss
dayR ia working 20 better the people ~
his race
Douglass IN BIS public nfe. the speaker
saif, never looked orr FOR bis ovn inter
ests. hut 20 ihe interest Of his country
and 90 the interests ~ humanity Doug
lass had spsciac traits OF character God
endowed Airn with an exfrnorsilnary brain
power he had great ambitions auf was
a hrosd and philanghropir statesman
Douglas. said the speaker. has been
eredstea hy sor3e wtth being an lnHdel
lie was BOT an inT3ei hut he sli8 raf he-
iieve rs Cog aho woula sanrslon Amer
team ~ auy other slavery He believed in
practical Christianity hc believed Eu the
principles which Jesus Christ laid down
when he wsa on earth
Douglass proved - the world vhe.
there was nore other - prove y that any
thing that car 20 taught she white rn1r
ear ~ taught ire cnfeTef man. 40 rrovef
- ihe WORLD that slavery was az outrage.
thar u came from the dsvn ana thar oulv
THE devil kept Is VT aud he ufte3 -hss peo-
pie ouf AZ the darkness 81 dependency
and PLACED them where they had bore"
IN CLOSING Rev Mr WhaIev said that as
81 orator Douglass had few equals and no
sasfertora even the eiaauance OF Daniel
Webster us ret stand above tha eioouence
az fhe eyua1elpator Of tbe colored race
Col James f.eg3v fha next xr.ea ket
spoke briefly hut sIoauentlv ~ douglass.
'fseuglass.' ssii Col F.es53y needs no
tribute az my hands Mention Fre~feris, <
Dough- 50 uaua ard vuu mentioned rh-
a-
wherever liberty r. heEi in reverence II
neels TO manuscript. no words 20 pay a
tribute 81 Ffesleg3rk Douglass ~. never
mad a parallel he was q graduate ~
slavery and fainea about his life was a
romance which saf tens fhe heart "a
stands side hv side with ere Ereates'
statesman - fhis nation Tie wt1 haKf
his statgte side by ~'ss wfth Abraham,
fsfHeoin. ths- APOSTLE ~ liberty
Mr. George = Riley. of Tacoma sails
that 10 well rer1et0hsesel- years ago fhs
sensation created in Boston Nass. whc~
3 ls~>a7ae known fhat Douglass bad ~
rived in New Bedford ana preached en-.
horrors - slavery roaEiaas was fr4rf-
tive HISS name a. thRf tifne vas He0rs
NaieY Tie assumed the name ~ Fra
rrtck tfnnEi8ss- who was n cha~a-tfr g-
ore - Sir Waiter SCOTS novels Ths
srfaker aai3 M attended "a meeting a-.
time wheu Douglass ant Samuel r War
~ssoke ant among those present was
1sanie3 Nesafer Who nnp-sst .-ts.f Wal
after fhe meeting shock hanss Ma hYr
an1 Eatf Were uof Ta~i-l Webster
weuts uFf Ger to 20 Sa0seei Wei
Ngrir hV thv orchestra followed a-'
Atss fEAs clark recifef poem "fr Mem
orr NJ EaoUEiaNe After fhr fateustrg
resolutions bat hsea }otvofa-ea an-
'optel the services closed wffh the sins
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