The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1905-12-30

exercised. But manlineSs Is not self
assertion. 1t is not bOisterousness, 1t
Is not immodesty, it is TO know what
Is due and becoming a man, and then
TO demand 1t. IL We possessed the
spirit OF Mr.. Douglass as ten millions
OF people there would be no New
York race riots, and yet there would
be ten millions of live colored people
here. Says Mr. Douglass of the days
OF bondage: The old doctrine that
submission is the best cure for out
rage and wrong does not hold good
on the slave plantation. He is whipped
oftenest who is whipped easiest. You
can shoot me. but You can't whip me.
said a slave to Rigby Hopkins. and
the result was that he was neither
whipped nor shot. IT. the latter had
been his fate ii would have been less
deplorable than the living and linger-
ing death to which cOwardly and slav-
ish souls are subjected" There.
believe is the keynote TO our present
condition.
Every mans house is his castle, and
no man under Gods sun has the right
TO order me TO leave my wife, children
and home. and run or exile myself
from the ties of family and the results
of my industry. Can you imagine any
one approaching Frederick Douglass
door under any circumstances, or in
any locality, and bidding him to leave
all behind. Know We not who would
be free. themselves must strike the
blow" was a popular quotation with
Mr.. Douglass.
The emancipation OF the colored
people was almost equally the eman-
cipation Of the poor whites OF the
South. Everybody in the South"
writes Mr.. Douglass, wants the priv
ilege OF whipping somebody else"
The poor white man has been enjoy
ing this privilege now for many years
In taking his spite out on the colored
brother. It is time We put a stop TO
H. Themselves must strike the
blow" says the spirit OF Frederick
Douglass. and while do not advocate
aggressive violence. I do say that
learn from the character Of Frederick
Douglass that every man has the
human right and ought to defend his
life. liberty and home with his life;
to die on his threshold rather than
surrender what Christianity and the
civilized world deem inalienable from
man. When the scholarly and coura-
geOus Cato fell in the streets Of Phil
adelphia a martyr to manhood and
his constitutional rights, and it so
shocked the best settlement OF Penn
sylvania and the whole North that
there were no further repetitions OF
such barbarous outrages.
There are few acquisitions more
needed and more necessary for our
well being. il not for our future ex-
istence under the Stars and Stripes.
than manliness. | deny that it was
opportunity alone that made Freder-
lex Douglass anything like all he was.
He would have been Frederick Doug
lass in any period and under any
circumstances, because he was man
endowed with physical and moral
courage. Certainly his times gave
him the conspicuous position and
much of the popularity he enjoyed.
but back Of and beneath 1t all there
were these man-making. sterling quail
tiles. For one | believe that the
manliness of Douglass more than his
fervid oratory and all-rOund ability Is
what leaves the chasm between him
and our conspicuous men of to-day
yawning and unbridged. l have but
TO refer you TO the recent apologet-
les gathering of our foremost men,
in many papers and speeches INA
tional Afro-American), to give you an
illustration of the thought advanced.
instead Of a plea for the inalienable
rights and privileges Of the Negro
guaranteed by the Constitution of our
country, it influenced me as being
the most complete and able defense
Of the actions, methods and policies
OF the socalled AngloSaxon that
have ever heard. There was no lack
Of oratory, for the Negro has plenty
OF that, but the sublime. uncompro-
missing. manly spirit of Frederick
Douglass seemed to have been want
ing. I for one cannot believe that
ofice-holding should be the rudder Tor
any mans tongue. Principle and
principle alone, must actate those
who would be leaders in our genera
ton to-day. The mantle OF Douglass
has fallen upon no one who, as yet