The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1922-12-23

SlIdnSlnS II II may every human
spark out of him, and he revolted, and
inspiration helped him to conspire
against the covenant of hell and fee
its wrath.
When about twenty years of age he
had qualified as a slave to graduate
from the Southern University of Slav-
cry. He left without getting certii-
cate OF his qualification 10 battle with
the world, although he had learned his
trade as a ship corKer. Winning the
favor of VIM. Lloyd Garrison at a
meeting one night in Nantucket
where he for the first time had ever
attempted to make a speech telling his
own story of what he knew slavery to
be in all its perhdious nature, the road
up to the good graces of the noblest
OF humanity was opened wide. His
life is one continuous scene of roman
tic splendor, eliminating in the high
est situations, enriched by the Hottest
associations among mankind, and
scenes OF official splendor adorn his
great life in which Abraham Lincoln,
Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phil
Ups, Charles Sumner, Robert G. Inger-
sol, Harriet Beecher Stowe and hun
dreds OF the greatest men and women
of the age in which he lived played
each their varied parts as their love, or
interest touched the great subjects Of
the oppressed which lay upon his big
heart.
Long before the abolition cause be-
came popular the oratory of Frederick
Douglass had been heard beyond the
sea. Several times ne crossed the
ocean before Abraham Lincoln
tested the mute eloquence of his
mighty pen. After the fugitive
slave law became enacted his only Sc
curity as runaway slave lay in find
ing some human souls who would
purchase him from his master, even
yet the fact remained that he could be
taken and brought back into slavery
without such a purchase, in the face
OF all contradictions OF human owner
ship and his long desertion of slavery.
When the war came on he showed
more than usual interest in trying to
get Mr.. Lincoln to draft several COL
ored regiments, having in his tractile
mind the thought Of the immortal poet
that those who would be free them
selves must strike the blow" 1t re-
CURED much work and strategy to
bring so important an event about and
to bring colored soldiers to fight
against white people of the same coun-
try. Finally congress passed the
measure enabling the president. to
muster colored regiments, and Fred
erick Douglass was given the brevet as
major, and commissioned to organize
two regiments of Negro soldiers in the
state of Massachusetts,. These two
regiments became famous for daring
and valor. Three of his own sons
fought with them.
In 1855 Mr.. Douglass published his
hrst story of his then eventful life
laying especial emphasis upon the fact
that he was not disclosing the secret
OF his escape from slavery. II bore a
long introduction by the scholarly DR..
VIM. McCune Smith Later he pub
hshed his autobiography which is quite
replete with interest and startling in
narrative. He held many public Offices
OF National character. Under Presi-
dent Grant he was appointed a high
commissioner to visit San Domingo.
Under President Garfield, United
States Marshal of the District of
Columbia. Under President McKin-
ley he was made Consul General and
Minister Pienipotentiary to Hayti
Under any and all circumstances he
maintained his high character and per-
formed al of the duties of his Official
life with honor and singular distine-
ton
T. IL