Confi tion of ve proper­
ty. 0 Armin, of tbe He­
&roeS. U They ere driven
from the first set of II oes n
by the &leamin of a half mil­
lion bayonets and I pred.id
tb t tbey will be driven from
the last • thouah I cannot
promise that they ·U not
find another
The second c of persons
are those ho may be �
youna converts. newly a k­
ened person. bo are COD­
vinced of the great evil and
daoaer of slavery. and ould
be glad to me' and
unobjectionable plan of
emancipation devised and
opted by the Government.
They hate very and -love
freedom, but they are yet too
much trammeled by the p0p­
ular habit of thou t rupee­
tin the negro to trust the �
eration of their own princi­
ples. Like t man in the
Scriptures, they see men only
trees alking. They differ
from the first c only in
mo ive and purpose, and not
in premi and ar ment, and
ce the an er to pro­
slavery objection will an er
tho raised by our ne anti­
very men. When some of
the m t potent, gave and
reverend defenders of sl very
in England Ur ed ilberforce
for a statement of his plan of
Emancipation, hi impl re-
ponse Uquit teafing.'·
My aDS er to the question,
H hat all be done ith the
four million laves if�ellaanCt
pated?' ball be ali e short
and simple: Do nothin ith
them, but leave them just
you h ve left other men, to
do 'th and .for themselves.
We ould be entirely respect­
ful to tbo raise the in­
quiry, and yet it is d not to
say to them ju t hat they
oula y to us, if e mani­
fest� a like concern for
them, and that is, to p
I mind your busin , and
at 1 be do e·th ve us to mind oun. If we
the four'millions of laves if cannot stand up, then let us
they are emancipated? Thi fall dOWD-We as nothing
. ,ular question comes from at the hands of the American
the same t 0 very different peop but simple justice, and
very opposite c of an equal chance to live; and if
American people, ho e cannot live and flourish
are endeavorin, to put down on uch terms, our case
the rebels. 'The fint have no hould be referred to tbe Au-
moral. reliaious, or polif thor of our existence. Inju
objection to very. and, 10 lice, oppression and very
far as they are concerned, . their manifold coocom-
very miaht Ii e d flour- itants have been tried with_
ish to the eod of ti . They durin, a period of more than
are the men ho ve an t hundred years. Under
bidina affection for � • the hole vens you will
and at the beain· marched find no to the wrongs
to the tune of II 0 Coercion endured. - e have
- 0 Subju tion." They ed 'tbout ; we
have no dropped th un- IiYed without hope.
popular .. tt and have ·tbout sympathy, and
taken up another , equally • bled ·thout mercy. No • in·
tr cberou. 1beir tune no the of a common hu-
·pabon. 0 manity, and rdina to the
Fr«krict DoII,11m WG$
born i" Tetbot CO"" Iy
Mary/41td ill 1817. Hi$ �
1M FmJmck Allgus-
Ills WashillllOll Boily. DIu­
illl DOUI'IIU' y�lIrs of
�/. Iw fU'S1 II
ou. .rwurl 11M lIIIer II flftd
ItGnd. His mistras, wMrt M
8 YNrs old, most un-
ill lluIl t Itl him
10 IWJd IIIfd wri/� dGpi/� op­
position from Iter lIusbalfd
IIIfd 1M ner- I iI�
� tnidition kh
forbtltM «lvnItiltg
0..« Iw GI* 10 rmd
lI11d rite, Frederick
Dou,Iats' mi1td III1d spiriJ
1 ItO bofmdIu'ies as M
IJaily «I1KtI1«l Itimself.
III 1&38 escap«I from
� . Glfd IIlW himsftJ II
m« of his choosill,­
Fmkrick Dotl,IIIss. 'T1aIft
IDI�r M � 1111
I of I M "usellS
A"'i-SIII�ry Sockly aItd
,,1 Oil spftIkill lours 10
'Q/� Nonll rn�rs IIbmll
iIIlt tutd "'''IfUlII-
. horrors oj I.
. 1M folio ·11 lin Ucirpts
a �It iItIII:k iJr
862, I lUI of whiclt
print«l ill Dou ' Month-
ly. USUIII'y, II lit ink of
FmJ rick Douglllss, 1M edi-
lor. . I� hun illt
TIt� ortll Stllr, th�
n ptlfJft" formd«l in
1847 when M ntunt«/ to Ihe
Ullited Stat� qfter raisin,
money in Ell IIIItd '11t Idch
10 buy his Jr��dom.
DOli 'M tMy which
publish«J from 18j1J-
1863 is nol wli klto
As you rMd I o:«rpts,.
iJr� 1M aoqwill tUId
D'Udi/� Fmlft id DotII
speIlki �Jore II 't� -­
dina« onlofon co yiltced
of tit in/monly of th� bl«k
I1IQ/f and his UIIiqw suitabili­
ty for mslllwm�III.
of Livina God, e
simply ask t riaht to bear
the responsibility of
existence.
Let us. alOne. Do not .
·th us, for • or by a
particular . What you
have us thus far
only ed to our disad-
VUl e no . ply
to be aDo ed to do for our­
Ives. I submit that there .
nothina unreasonable or un-
ural in all t· request.
The b man is said to be
unfortunate. He.is so. But I
affirm that the broadest and
bitterest of the
. fortunes i the f;
. every1rfhere f\ ded
treated an �� t� __
principles and maxims .
-apply to other men,
h' short of the eue.
of t principles to
him can . fy any h
advocate of hi claim.
Part 0
Even t ho are '-
cerely desiro to rve u
d to help us out of our
difficulf stand in doubt of
us and fear that e could not
stand the application of the
rul hiCh they fr y apply
to all other people.
0, hence co this
doubt and fear? I wiD teU
you. There' no diffICUlty
hatever in Jiving ample and
satisfactory explanation of
the source of this estimate of
t1!c:.. b!_aE man�s capacity.
tion and circnmstance for
more than t 0 centuries?
These will explain all.
T e any race you please,
French, EDJ).ish, Irish, or
Scotch, subject them to
very for -regard and
treat them everywbere, every
way, property,' as bavina
no ri,hts which other men are
required to respect.-Let
them be loaded with chains,
carred itb the whip,
branded with hot irons, sold
in the market, kept in ignor­
ance, by force of 1a and by
common usqe, and I venture
to y that the same doubt
ould ·D, up concernilll
either of them, ruch now
confronts the nqro. 1be
common talk of the eels on
tI)e subject sbo pat.-
noraDce. It umes that no
Other- race - - --ever been
ved or could be held in
lavery, aod the fact ttW the
bIac man ubmit to th
condition is often cited a
proof of the oriainaJ and
permanent inferiority, and of
the fitness of the b k man
only for that condition. Just
thi is the araument of the
Confederate tates; the VJU­
ment of Stephens in defense
of the S.C. But hat are the
r ts7 I believe it will not be
denied that the Analo-Suons
are a fine race of men. And
have done somethin, for the
civilization of mankind, yet
ho does not kno that this
no arand and actina race
as in bondaae and abject
ery for upon their
own na . soil. Tbey were
not stolen away from their
own country in small num­
bers, here they could ke
no resistance to their enslav­
ers, but ere ensl ved in their
o n country.
Then to the P8I of the
history of the orman Con­
quest, by Monsieur Thierry,
d you will rand this e-
ment fully attested.-He
ays: Foreigners visit in,
EnaJand, even 10 te the
sixteenth century, ere on-:
isbed at the areat number of
serf they beheld, and the
excessive harshness of their
servitude. Th ord bond-
e, in the orman tOD,ue.
e pressed at that time that
as mo t wretched in the
condition of humanity. He
apia says: About the year
1381. all ho ere called
bonds in Enali b or in Analo-
onnan-that is, all the
cultivator of the land- ere
serfs in body and loods,
ob· ed to pay heavy aids
for- the mall port�ons of land
hich served them to feed
their families, and ere not at
liberty to Jive up that portion
W at 0
of land ·thout consent
of the Lords for bolD they
ere obliaed to do p-atui-
tously, their , their
in and their carriaae
of all kinds. The Lords could
them, t her·th their
hones, their oxen, and their
impIemeo of husbandry­
tbar children and their pas.
terity- hicb in the Eqlish
deeds as expressed in the
folio ·n, manner: Kno
that I have 1OId-, my n ve,
and all hi offs . • born or
to be born.
Sir alter Scott, after
describ· very minutely the
dr of a Saxon serf, says:
One part of the dress only
remains, but it· too remar -
able to be suppressed. It
a b rina resanblina a
dOl'S collar, but·t t y
opening, and soldered f
around the neck, so loose
to form no impedimeftt to
breathina. and yet so t' t
to be incapable of beina re­
moved exceptina by the u
of the file. On
,or,et as enaraved, in
Suo ten, an inscription
of the foUowin, purpor!:
Gurth, the Son of BeowtiJph,
is - the born thrall of Cedric
Rotherwood.
m
As an evidence of t con­
tempt and dqradarion in
hich the Saxon ere held,
Monsieur Thierry say th t
after the conquest the Bi hop
ant
of Lincoln reckoned only t 0
lanaua in England-Latin
for men of letter and French
for the ianorant, in hie
tanau e he himself
piou books for the
French, Makin no
of. the En lish Ian
th ho spo e it.
The poets of the me peri­
od, even tho of Enali h
birth, composed all their
ve in French hen they
. hed to derive from them
either profit or honor. Such i
a brief vie of the social con­
dition occupied for by a
people no the miptiest on
the &lobe. The Saxon of
no ccount no . May not
history 0 day carry the an­
alogy a ep further? In the
case of the Saxon, e have
people held in abject lavery,
upon their 0 n native il by
str n er and- forei ner .
Their very Ian uaae made no
ount of, and themlelv
carina br collars on their
necks like do • bearina th
names of their m en. They
ere bought and sold like th
beast of the fie d, and their
offspring. born and to be
born doomed to the same
retched condition. 0
doubt that the people of this
no proud and rand r in
t . then abject condition
ere compelled to . en to
dispar ement d insults
from their orman oppres-_
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