The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1914-02-21
Mr.. JUSTICE CATERS GRAFTON
ON FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
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Anglo-Saxons, must soften their lie
cold hearts and learn to treat the Ne
gro with more even handed justice an
consideration; that the great bulk o
Colored people are deserving Of IA
better treatment than they receive
that acne Of the problems or question
aheeting the present status of the Ne
gro is settled or can ever be settleC
until they are settled right and in al
fairness to him and to his posterity.'
"The solution of many Of you
problems will come from the great
mass Of common people. From suel
stock did Lincoln and Douglass come
The day is nearing when religious and
racial bigOtries and prejudices viii be
east aside.
"Do not imagine that the derisive
term Niger bespeaks the only big.
ot-y and prejudice in this country.
How about such terms as 'Dago,
'Sheeny,' FChink,' 'Greaser' and
'Mick'f
1.-THE White man must make the
chances for the Colored man equal with
his own. Then let the Colored man
60 ahead and do the rest. Your peo-
pie own 100000, 900 in property in the
United States. The time is coming
when your moral and intellectual free
dom will be secured"
Very wildly he traced the stormy
and more than wonderful career Of
Frederick Douglass from the slave pen,
the auction block, the lecture platform,
on up to the editors chair, United
States Marshal for the District Of Col
umbia, Recorder of Deeds, Minister to
Santo Domingo and Worlds Fair COM
missioner from that country in 1898,
In fact to his death in 1895.
Justice Carter emphatically de-
clared that "The history Of the United
States can never be truthfully written
without linking the names Of Frederick
Douglass and Abraham Lincoln to-
gether, that they were both born in the
month Of February, one in abject pow
erty, the other in slavery, that they
both had to struggle long and hard
in order to force themselves to the
front, that they both had to educate
themselves under the most trying and
difficult circumstances, that they were
both great public speakers, that they
were both firm or strong believers in
God and in the bible"
He related how William iceland, the
owner Of Frederick Douglass, had
commanded his wife to refrain from
teaching him his A-B-C's, stating by
doing so she would spoil q good farm
hand; how Frederick Douglass was
sent to Baltimore to reside and while
working in that city he came in close
contact with many White boys, and
being eager to learn all he could with
out them knowing what he was up to
he would banter them that he could
form and put more letters together
than they could 80 the White boys, in
order to show him that he was as dumb
a. Q blind mule and that he would
never learn or know as much as the
dullest White boy, would jump or pitch
in and write and join long string Of
letters together and when they would
get through writing, Frederick Doug
lass would make his "get away" with
the paper containing the writing;
then in dim hours Of the night and in
the early mornings long before any Of
the White folks were awake and astir
he would endeavor to write and con-
meet the letters together just like the
White boys, and that IL the way he
finally learned how to read and write.
After going to Baltimore from the
farm Frederick Douglass worked in the
shipyards and IN no time he became
Q good ship carpenter and keeping his
mouth closed tight al the time a. to
his future plans, all the time learning
all be could about things in general,
he finally successfully disguised him
self as q sailor and made his escape
from slavery in 1888, at first landing
in New York City, which was Ike BE-
ing in . new world to him BE was
united in marriage IN that city to Miss
Anna Murray whom he knew back
in Maryland IN his slavery days.
From New York he and his wife went
70 New Bedford, Mass, where he as
Iuned the name Of f'Fredsriek Doug
lasS." In New Bedford he confined
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