Year: 1869

through Virginia and other southern States and visiting
the schools The colored people were rising: The chill
eoored neong were better of than their former
FOR while both poor the former knew how TO work
All the colored people wanted was the privilege OF work


AT the close Of Mrs Harpers address the Society ad
journed to meet again at o'clock p III.


'.............. EvENING MEETING. -..


the evening much larger audience than had been


TOO SVE Wa occupied by large number Of prominent
ladies and gentlemen The meeting was presided over
lass. He spoke as follows:


-.,.'---.,- SPEECH. OF FRED. DOUGLASS.


It has been long time since have had the honor OF
appearing among the regular speakers Of the American
AntiSlayeTy Society anniversary occasion like the
haTo 4S bssn the changes that have
taken place since them that almost hesitate


appreciate very highly the sentiments to which hope


my invitation TO be present on this occasion is due The
Arguments which use could be used with some skill ana
effect against the idea that occasions like this arc no
arg1enEs ~ which We N pce SSedatGs & PS1lSs arS
Inents Where are the cnnninS the subtle arguments
ffamed by Doctors Of Divinity in defense c slavery


gates Of he'll could not prevaI They are all gone How


can speak Oh the tst9rq Si re


taking time to look for postionsl Where is slavery


II Is gone-gone trust, forever. It's condcappeu


towers and gorgeous palaces stained with blood are DIS


solved and IL we have any vocation mission here IL


is 10 that not wreck is left behind, that not


one concomitant element OF the slave system shan


remain to obsruct the pathway Of human progress IN the


fntIire Some people saw Slavery died some time


With IT. The logic would be perfect If the premises
correct Had Slavery died an honest death tne Anti
slavery Society might have died with IT. but Slavery is
not honestly dead did not die honest DEATH and it's
death the acquisition of moral conviction instead OF
the recognition OF necessity Had 1t come IN ODedehce
td the enlightenment of the American people, had IL
come at the call Of humanity, by the


well of fellowcltizens, slavery might be
looked upon dead But there no such thing as con


HOna abolition OF Slavery. In the nature OF the case


there can such thing an intermediate condition
of the abolition OF Slavery In the world II is not sum


GO further aud abolish power from which Slavery
springs, that by which IT was sustained. Inc
Ignorance and cruelty OF the slave stll remain
It's NOT correct TO assume that Slavery enre OUT Oh


the field. The American AntSlavery Society however,
only an instrumentaity an alien It's dignity ana 's
let perish IL has had glorious history for 30 years


over which four millions Of persons have passed into
liberty. The arch way was built 1t was was
for us completion which was 20 insert the
keystone of the arch, and that keystone Is the -Four


UGited Constitution, the apology for It's existence
whether il is dispense with the Society or not


wOuld dare decide the question until had heaTd


40 not Know what TO say. do not know anything to
argue but the Fifteenth Amendment. / shall not,
however, go into any argument, as know who VIII
OF long and brilliant list OF speakers, TO whom
You eager TO listen, and TO whom am sure am.
have only one theory and IL applies TO the Democrats
we'll as the Republicans; IL is summed up In word,


Let the negro alone" That is your whole duty In re
gar to the negro You want be dong something, and
you are doing something by listening TO the speeches OF
tics in regard to the negro is tins Give fair play and let
him alone aud be you give him far play i is now
a point before the law, and rejoice In 10. What we
amt and what resolving have is the right 20
be among men-men everywhere. The wants OF
900 acres Of land have banded together and determined


not to sell any large or 81 small parcels G TO SG3Teq oeT %s


the present Government at any rateto see that the
gro fair play I'm the acquisition OF land; that when
he offers fair price he oha not be deprived OF the right
OF purchasing because Of color Let the negro purchase
I1Du po not say say " he shall not 90 into the saine
school with II any has right 10 school II the
negro II any has the need Of school IL Is the negro
IN You see him the workshop let him work.
and say that you will not work with him. Newspa
the Government Ofice truly disgusted by the
employment OF one negro as printer In that
eaSe o Retire enc and h6ps they may retire
II easier for to-day 10 get my son in law office IN
build ships The reason IS the higher you go upin the
gradaons Of intelligence the further you get away from
find far less difficulty in getting along
with educated men, ignorant as ! am than
John Quincy Adams brought forward proposition 20
TecogllLe tle M e -, y ,;yn,ar,I,cid ~ c6nfsinT
IIepy Wise said IL Is true told that this black
republic has maintained ts liberty FOR forty years
not Tor that should time itself confront and shake


his hOary locks at my opposition should stu oppose
ihe ackGGwledgme9t ot the ni,a igdeP,enden,ee Of
day acknowledged. and is footing with
other nations-ackuowledge 10 be among the sister
hood OF such by the mighnest
and foremost nation OF the world That nntlGn sends
black Minister 10 Hayt-the nation that stands ready TO
out ITS hand 20 those brave those heroic noble Gu
bans who are struggling for liberty. Applauscl /
have some sympathy with my Democratic brethren,
Tbey have always been logical They have always seen
little further than the Abojtionists Long before
Wendell Phillips announced the doctrine Of the dissolu
tion Of the Uuion, John c. Calhoun that that
Just ThaI rced % The doctrinc Of irrepressibe con
hict Mr. Calhoun that rrepresble conflict aud saw


that this country become all slavery all freedom
Nj HendricEs said on the floor OF the United States Sen
ate: "Gentlemen. this thing Is impossible. Manhood
suffrage means the bringing OF black Senator INTO this
Chau6er 10 be seated In these chars II is impossible"
lie was right; 1t means all that and |
~ Stem m tbe right direction and another opens before
you take one in the wrong, and another s, and you


les nit let the negro vote aud he viii be voted for n
voted FOR he will go to Congress- there telling where
he won't 90; Then give hin nun the nght 70 vote
viii It produce amalgamatloni Ne, it WON'T don't DO
afraid OF IT, Some has said that oil races had some
distinctive peculiarly by which civilization could bo
disposition 70 initiate IS one OF the most civzng qual
tis of te human mind and am going TO Initiate all the
good can and not initiate all the bad find In this
world There Is nothing so good for the negro, or any
body else ia this country as living right among the peo
pie Tic only why the negro - not Killed OF
Inc Indians been ts because he has kept 80 close
under your that he could not got out Had e been
no would have been pushed on and on precisely
as tho Indians have been. II has been sad by Senator
Doote that the negro Ike the Indian, must die out
that they arc rapidly disappearing and that there
no use Of doing anything about Incorporating them into
of the Western states aud have had occasion 20 observe
that vast number Of colOred people had removed
there from the South These men followed the Union
armies from the South and were practically dead 10 The
south That IS the way the negro dying out say 10
ureiudlce against the cOlOred Is TO begin
10 De iust do not believe that TINS lOngdessed casb
viii die out Sec what this has been exposed 10 for
$50 years; deprived OF marriages. deprived OF az the
saving Influences OF every saving loaueu WIN