Frederick Douglass' Paper, 1851-08-28, vol. 4 iss. 36 no. 192

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VOL. IV.—NO. 36.
ROCHESTER, N. Y„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1851.
WHOLE NO. 192.
...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS' PAPER.
and also for the „
' Thompson, Esq., M.
large hall
eof v., ■l.-.m
llillg     I
abnlitioi
the United
■i y much crowded on the oc-
Geoge   Thompson, Esq., M.P.;   Sir   Francis
Xnowles, Ban.; the RevJJabe/ Burn?. P.M.:
Mathews,  And
and a numbei
,   whirl,   !„■
K-lillOil       to
tfa . ■
ton, Esq., of Glasgow,
ir   gentlemen,  ardent
placed, thai lit; Celt almost
v, with Shakspearc, ".Mv
"lightlyouilsthn.no." The
dered, was a groat exhibition.
while :K tin.: siimi- time it was a pleasurable
exhibit ion, and he was promt of the metropolis of England, which could call forth so en
thusiastic'
sucli as the present.
i. Mai
,vith  thai  aboi,
Thei
Mr. William \
•lave.
The Chair;
ngs, remarki
lad of late b
wery variety of subject, yet that the subject
they were called upon that evening to discuss
differed from them all. Many of those by
whom he was surrounded,  like himself, had
•laverv and were in consequence exiled from
, ere fugitives
,nd they had 'not fled from  a mon-
i from  amongst  a
people who declared, as a part of their creed,
o declared, i
.,11 were b
i the country. (Hi
tear.) He must not, however, forget t
one of the purposes for which they were i
to-night,   was   to   commemorate  the  em
Parliament, and he might  add in  this  c
with neeuliar emDhasis, of the British nati
enfranchised   800,000   West    led
•laves, was  an   event sublirm  "
comprehensive and mighty in
take effect <
beyond express
and encouraging beyond the
1 and jui
immediate
the hearts of all e
tion.    But   the   abolition of shivery   ii
e= was a blow struck in the
dh'-tinri at that most inhuman of all tr
the slave trade—a trade which would  i
.lavery
chandiso; where there
-would bea supply; whore there
nup the the Niagara r
<lueed in that
I !,".■■■
under tho British crc
t come to the
abolished slan
hilo   the  eoloiih
lOUClus
n  the   West
.ame foi
tes  if she  had   had  th.
safely sav chat the separation of thi
■ States from the mother country wa:
the least) a great uusiomino to  one
land had set a noble example
and he would   to   Heaven  that
would follow tho example.     The
supei
that too, so high, that
lantern of Diogenes
iU wings the groans :
of this guilt. Nearly
the   seal of disapprol
wTblus ,S0K
...    ...   .
:ieir superior
hill-top,   ;Dld
world brought up
cries Of tho victir
. countries had fixed
.  What
tueky, and end.
(.    1  i .        tl
11"--]   .11.pi:-:
,r distant from   that.   an.I   I
Mr. i
applause
.  lie hold i
scorned, and the hunted  .
i through t
.   docti
;ny  plac
Inch'
he had no object in view out to stir u]
: feeling against the keeping oi rhest
millions one hundred and eighty-nini
md slaves who were unjustly held ii
go. Several of his meetings and pro
■rjf hail   been noticed   in  some of thi
ethes
Mr. G. Thompson.— Kcho
the pros-;
histiniL
state of t
would tho
isted in this country calling
le attacks.—(Ob
vhat he had found out from
- lb,-   Urilish  iiiid   Forrign
-Where is Scoble?
g that subject, "he would   refer
the city of Boston,  he found it i:
greatest c
t attack it, or t
it the  whole7 c
japed had, s
aken  himsel
is support, and his wife was a wo
horn, ho would only say that there
brnacdo that evening, in the finest saloons
' the Wont-end. a lady   who   could
then   w,t
I char
whom
t, for the purpose.
States.
■   : ■
sought out
.lliam Loytl Garrison,   than   win
other country.    He was in   conseq
of the abolition oi the slave was h<
ton, at which, he attended, and
called to give an expression again;
duct which these two persons had
rupted, but tho   interruption did
badness of their cause.    The
it was not at  all   wonderful
ilia the outbreak   which   was   so graphically
described in the  newspapers of this ■■■-"■■"
uring  the other eight
Ho did   not labor
i p.-ople,
whi.-h he bait
l„-   bad
:   would j
the interest particularly
entsof tho Tower llamleis
ill way was to do  anything
ea, lie had labored for wha
be thebenoRt of the world i
was glad to think that he b
torious. (Cheers.) He hat
again to this country, ho had addressed hit
constituents on the subject, and they, so fai
he  had   seen them,   laid   applauded   tin
efforts ho li
.      .
The Thrc
'heodore 1
: Nichols.
THE HIGHER LAW.
table Dis,
irds of S
publis
1,  /.-*'" r
d by Crosby
on another safeguard of
portaut.    We have been
^an act of the American
w how this doctrine of
he lower law has been
laces of tlie State, in the
church, and in the low
.. You know with what
igion, and said,' The law
wn the justice of tho AI-
i  French  Assembly,
filed.       Iti:
of God.    ' He h;
i nothing to do with
le is one of the foulest
■  P
.isclosing the
a only gt
! ,,    :
wingthrough he
in'oheml.
I speculat
droiiillu! thing, the stark denial
n the Universe, inprovidence only
God for all, no Father for any, only
guishable nothing that fills the des:-
imitahle either of space and time,
« and whither of all that are,—such
conceivable: but I do not believe
single atheist living on the whole
■Id. There is no L'Oneral danger of
When
telescope, though he
real God of nature, :
gnatioi
1 pi
vt-i-v eoumioii thing in America, in New K;
land.      This is not S
God and
•emo ru
e people, of tho Uni
groal  man to it; the dev;
.   trod   ilnoi
pre mo ruler
e, o
the  devil of ambi
the   httle.    Both
e of a god, and n
higher law.' Tl
f this land, wil
said,' The Nori
?ry   high';   tho Blue  Kidg
1        i   1        tl       i I
.tical morality, and seem n
3r who buys cheapest and :
1 confess I am amazed  w
ret  the   lessons of thoso g
i prayer.'
North Mi
.Vhat ! is there no law abov
Why, t
■  obi
Hebrew poet told us of One' which lemoveth
the mountains, and they know not; whicr
overturned them in his anger; which alem
sprcadeth out the heavens, and treadeth unoi
the waves of tho soa ! Lo ! he goeth by
ami I sio him not; he passeth on ;'
above the Allegha:
rotild grow. Shall the fool sav it
bore is no God? He cannot uiak.
w on his head but by the etorna
rather in heaven. Will the poli
there is no law of God for states
■rowing world: let Austria and Hun
a reply. Nay, ask the .Smtheri
tmerica to show us their rapid in
riches, in civilization: to show lids and their scholars, their litem
Righteousness exalteth a nation,
a curse to any people.' Lot the
tid of the South join with tho
wicked hand, iniquity shall not
But the eve of the  wicked  shall
mgues and their doings are again-1 the l...r.
3 provoke the eyes of his glory. Their ro.
iiall be as rottenness and their blossom sha
o up as dust, if they cast away the law (
10 Lord, and despise the word of the Hoi
fthe land.     On'the whole, the'j
The execution
orld
ta.ehed M law:
i in tho world is thei
is the people
tho Fugitive Slave Law as they  have i
hati'il ■ui',  law since the Stamp Act.    I 1
t,—who would have invented slavery hi
M existed lose before. But the ms^o
Northern people hate this law, bocause
"    purpose of all just human
ostilo
hostile 'to the 1;
'      lie to   '
.da th.
vidual life; because it
of God—bids the wroi
We disobey that  for 1
theTOlaw°of°God.Waw
t thai   law
iblo three hundred
soil.    Most
ntegrity of fifteen mUlio
of the human heart and
F Christianity, for that
What shall we do
pretend to build a church
rgain. *        *        "
the ruck of ages,     C
right; but to disobev every-
ong. 1 entreat you "by youi
unlrv, by ihe memory of youi
id holy love of Hod wind
;, by yoi
vfeel.
FIRST OF  AUGUST IN M\\ BEDFORD.
"    '    irly sounded the btisj
rata   well
.dilre-sed
he times,
aigge-.tetl  by what ids eyes  had seen and
Its such an occasion as the present was cal-
,1ated to hasten.
The weather was now too unfavorable for
t-ther speaking, ami tlie friends were invited
repair to tho"tables, where, while refresh-
g the physical man, their mental appetites
ight  be  excited for  tho  evening  'feast of
The precession bavin;' re-formed, maiehe.l
The interval between thil
g bright
In the evening, City Hall was crowded by
izens generally, who gave close at«
id hearty applause to tho several spei
again, and wi
Tho ii
devoted
i'reedo:
and profitable
. He iletailed i
i colored men, i
expected, had
1 be appropriately
) way fora scathing
cheme of coloniza-
much feared, have (
. it opposed a man's elevation
his birth, proffered unnumbe:
I
nd ero long tl
-, haiiii-ma..i. ; ■
ights, so long withheld,
-ed, and thev and the
n a jubilee of freedom.
1-, of Boston, gratified
ispicious day.
He alluded to then
.hh-li  1
He took a
ase, and its inn
ure, upon the fugiti
i Bay State and Ne
Siiail'-neii
and  concluded   by
He was followed by
inLted iheii
'riends separated, again t
cceptable  garlands,  hung on
Auioiiff the civilities e-steiidei
ie day was an invitation to the
gangers to visit tlie splendid t
ruamental  grounds of James .
iniinoss and courtesy in e\hibi'
mold. Esq,
Boston, August, 1851.
SLAVERY AND THE CAPTURE OF WASHUVQTON
n this yoar for a ger
itish West India Emt
i ;ihii, Inn
vho humbleth himself t<
i   thought of a  pci.ph
their liberty^ their^ humanity,
and clieeriiig.)   Mr.   Thompson   concludad
. -lavery nt
tof theGosDel. by
)   No
■iage, ,-wrvitimg done to Keep
e  slave in   darkness.     Tliere
the part of the   people of the
And n
Bill.    The n
if slavehokling. but
It, he was not satis
f without their ahar
isfied  with letting
l word ii
'erympM*
ipublic, boasting itself t<
,-,,-rted    tie-
light formerly enjoyed by tho fugitive of trial
by jury—it annulled his claim to the writ of
habeas corpus^—it affoH"'1 '■
teetion. i." opjii.i-tuihiv
to be free, and it pUce-
whole population of the free states into a
band of slave-catchers, and every rood of territory is hut so much hunting' ground, over
■which they might chase the fugitive. But
while they were speaking of slavery in the
United States, they must not omit to mention that there was a strong feeling m thai
land, not only against the fugitive >Slave
Law, but also against the existenco of slavery
in any form. There was a band of tearless
men and women in the city of Boston, whose
labor for tho slave had resulted in good
beyond calculation.    This noble and   heroic
agitation, until   their principles have taken
and which, with God's blessing, will,   in  due
liable system
highly conde
An appeal
and the won
k.ti-H  rSoa;ie
seconded by
set  forth,  i'h
e people of Gn:
next proposed b
i  the United    S
In ra.sed lie-
■ millions of persons
intheUnitodS
itill  increasing
unless   the    u.
■onlinually   held
the guilt
what they have
hear.)    He wishe
up before tho country, that
states are as deeply implicate,
of slavery as the south.    The  north  1
had a popul
the north  1
hoiwe, the south  only 81,  and it  would   1
»oen by this, that tho balance  of power wi
with the free  States.    Looking,     thereto,-
at the question in all its aspects, he was  sui
" Tbis; appeal was unanimously   agreed i
and in the course of Irs being so. a r..ll,rli.
was made  in  the meeting on behalf of f
Mr. Robert Smith next proposed a resol
tion to tho effect, that tho mo^imL'liad heal
with much pleasuro and satisfaction, t
efforts which Mr. Win Lloyd Harrison *
making in America for the emancipation
shiverv in those staler, and earnestly pray
that bis efforts would in tho end be attend
Thi* resolution   was seconded   by Mr.
lSn.nl.-. and cordially agreed to.
On the proceedings being about
1 the things
.a, One who hath
scales j before whom
; little thing.    Yes,
r thou hadstformed
alone is excellent; thy glory abo\
It would be a great calamity for tin
'   id on.    But, i
would all bo r.
Ired and fifty yean.
England lost hers it
far of the R,
.   Nature bor
largely represented; and i
Chesapeake evinc
ingfam,thePresid
the regular force
the   British
vith Great Britain, may
He immediately marched back ■
principal part of his force, leaving
we believe, to remain on the  spot
Themau™
wanted. Finding, however, in a few days,
nil the forces with which ho had returned.
ere sufficient to overawe the s"
s dare not !i..',,;n withdraw   tin
■awo the.
o finally si
ivacheij riie y
oforo Slated,
tiiiiti
len of the
day, in deeming the Imt.l.e of Bladensbut
to be of an indecisive character, and in considering that a small additional  force  would
made a successful stand, were well founded,
who need doubt that had the Virginia Brigade, which had thus  been recalled and kept
. .     ■
the Nat
nal Capitol saved f
ignificant and instruct
BEAUTIES OF SLAVERY.
Mr.   Rust came  before the  Polic
suppose the sum awarded will go to the mas
'ie  being in law  the  ono  pecuuiaril
ig-cd" by the h-.msaeiion.—Buffalo Adt
ugitiv
inhuman
labor," during life, under
But the Fugiti,
nd the alb
brutal ma
lowing testimony, he did
Robert Jones, (colored man)sworn. Is head
ok on Buckeye State ;
hatchway he had nothing in Ins  hand
:;;.. .
When the colored i
e had nothii:
ent in; Gates told n
no of my men; I sai
inner; I passed in.
nd time and told mi
kitchen when I
ild Daniel, the alleged
estops that they    " ' '
He obeyed in
ii go up
.as tho
,, *nd thet
lie had got up with his iioaii just clear
f going up for the cooks except that
' d through the cabin,  a  wa
When  struck. Daniel ie
Tho other way led through the c
had  got   out of the   door   ■
  ■  I   : ...
. lo ns that   bo had a wan
did not know h
;   had nothing  to  do  with
nothing in his hand;
he had. Whenwedrs
he had nothing in his i
the boon  of liberty fro
City Hall during the formation of the procession. Escort was furnished by a colored
military company of cadets from New York.
After tho barouche containing the orators
and chaplain, allowed several societies: The
Union Club—a body of citizens—a fraternity
of seamen—the Good Samaritan Lodge, with
Branches of Masonic ami other bodies from
their  banner—Sons  of Freedom attracted
the smiling am! hapnv faces of school children.    This
with   evergr
the wavsule
.ppropriately decorated
■  system of school  edut
t of School Comn
short.    In ""this body there
wake and watch.and will; n
turns ni\  hand,  now hero. ■
who   controls  my   1
day long, and
ither these particles
Who bids   thi
btle law holdf t<
on.-haiHS, with
dilb, tbiswom.-
all myself
t!U;lu al.ove the Alleghs
e state, and, out of a lew straggii
thai tied, here [o New Knidaud lor coiiseien
sake, built up this mighty, wealthy state :
Was it Carver and Winthrop who did all  hi
than tho
rules the
ghty, w.
Was it the
ol mightiest men   that
owing what they did.laid the
ir New England state ando
iugland   church ?    Why,   tho boys
tnow better.    It was the Eternal Gi
,w the pilgrim and the Pu
n essayed to keep, i
the procession and the day's observ-
ices—the
ord'of de'ed, which h.
, tho ei,:ep
; and thus
lof ii
they may hi
I his Cabinet ordered
tationed at the Pa-
a of the former, and
tion on Pennsylvania, Maryland
. for 10,000 militia for the debitor, the number appointed to
or other, but 2,000 men. And
vi'. further observed that when
n forces made, near Bladens-
stand again
bin fifty miles  of
d have had
a.—Is cabin 1
. struck.    Saw that
vhig the Capital i
In reading the h
too small  and
x ...i i ii.-.Tn
which stood so d
we were never a
eotly on
- round
nothiuj
sponsibility:
When the requis
though her govern!
was a brother of Pi
militia hail been made.    He:
led, the following fact,  whic
collected   his   quota,
'   " r the   - —
■
i reached,
.ison, who
,, ami who
need   hi
seareeh
tl range.
•ch for the  'scene  of   action     Scareeiy.
passed from On
Culpepper,   Madison,    and   other   aljoi
counties, from which it had been pri
raised, before the slaves in all  that
which nobody knew,
had suddenly spread everywhere a
srful
svated which
i. an insurmountable barri
f eolorphobia.
wmpose,  we fondly
Tho procession, during tho
■    -^al streets, was en
d and Clary's Boston
i ''It ikroie.ii
nod t,v the
York   Bra*-,
of Hon. John A.
d'the
.tun.; >
s called
i, <Jeor;>;o  Marshall, Augus-
f the day we had assembled
arrived on the coasl
slaves of Virginia.
thev had
dish i.
} give freedom
;th  them,  they
ng them,
■pose,  had
tsly  quitted v
testing  the least   disposition  to
whites, began, in their joyful  exci
bodies, and prepare to go off to t
a as the shape
>   aitoi     cypres
had  taken,
to   General
ide a temporary
halt in the vicinity of the   Potomac,  froi"
wbichit  was upon  the. point of moving on 1
Washington, and begged him to return wit
rection of the slaves. This at once completely
paralyzed the movements of Madisoa.
the   kitcln
'Defendant
■ith hotli h;
uld. I
; before the blow- was struck
both handt
•ovdd.    Did n
.toiy   ilroyiped
iy as°
hear defendant or
cold  blood,
joke,   and
Other
th such pro-slavery gusto aa thin
The question of gradual emancipation,  it
with thi- relig
good  enough  for
talented upon the
del l..v a bo.h
aaracter will e
urn in that oi
nd thar tie- ia
lu'snf ih.'is'i.a.
aitucky.      CasBius M.  Clay,
.n irieuils, whose talents and
pad any similar number of
any  other  State, has  been
stitutiou of Kentucky. Ono
tit in such a cause, the wholo
,vo but one feeling, one voice;
arty encouragement of every
tial' liberty would p;reet tlis
,d of undaunted patriot '
of progress would be
How is it  with theso Whi|
Whig
th bland
now fully, read tl
rery laughable aitair. J. no I
graph was stolen by an obscur.
Worcester, (though marred in th.
and was  inserted, probably, for tl
is system ?
:iay. The
this paper
ltly thinki
e of liberty,;
■     ■
ti hypoct-
open, palpabl
very, will Wh o
themselves, by prot
'     mt to liber
will  the good
wealtl "--
posed, Messrs.
Can hypocrisy go farther ? After all thes»
jeu, palpable instances of devotion to sla-
ery, will Wings stultify, not to say fors
mwealth longer believe them ?
month,
day.
Dante l Boone.
ESOLimONS  ADOPTED AT THE   PEACE
CONGRESS.
Tho Congress of tho frionds of Universal
eaee, assembled in London, July 22, 23 and
>r the settlement of international disputes,
; a custom condemned aliko by Religion,
Ibrality, Reason, and Humanity, and believ-
ig that it is useful and necessary frequently
nd Peoples to the evils of the War system,
nd the desirableness and practicability of
laintaining Permanent International Feaoe,
1. That it is tho special and solemn duty of
all Ministors of Keligion, Instructors of
Youth, and Conductors of the Public Press,
employ their great influence in the diffu-
■ii of pacific principles and sentiments, and
reditary animopitUk uid political and com-
■rcial jeidou^ies, which have been so often
e cause of disastrous Wars.
. question, on any principle of equity and
die, it is the duty of Governments to refer
X That tho :
which the Gove
each   other,
ind  confidence,   being   a prolific
,  this  Congress would earnestly
mphatic condemnation of all
5. This Congress,  believing that the ir,
ention, by threatened or actual violence
regul_at
violat
eltehi
way  S
Don'
shard i
very violent bh.o
mid. I n
he struck
the head of
til he was taken off by the Officers.-
blow thus dealt
her.' ho lay
These f-icts were not denied"; and the  Court
$50, which sum the Jldver-
of that journal.0
iliar beauty of Shv
But the
Adver
any "pny;
' that  the
ard for the wound inflicted upoi
abor," a» theso terms are eonstru
lesti and blood. But the idea
faster" is the person to profit by
■aults upon a Fugitive has the
loveltyat least.—.ilba.iy /,";■;. jou
WHIC HYPOCRISY.
die following from the Man
of  difl
Free Soiler,
that its principles  are at
lystem, and that the only
ce   between   the  Whig i
did, notwithstanding  tht
te of political 1:
Stare, in defiance of law and of the constitution, merely for tho oipression of his  senti-
As our papers had dwelt with suitable indignation upon the forcible liberation of Shad-
rack, it might be supposed that such an open
infraction of our groat bill of rights, by
Soutlierners, would be as severely commented on.    But the Boston Journal, a sheet
and humanity, is only equalled by its satanic
hypocrisy, narrated "the lynching in words
G, This Congress recommend all the frienda
of Peace to prepare public opinion, in their
ation of on authoritative Code of luterna-
7. This Congress expresses its strong abhorrence of the system of aggression and violence practiced by so-called civilized nation*
upon aboriginal and feeblo tribes, as leading
nently unfavorable to tho true progress of ra-
brings  lii ■ i
.lishmem of ie:
that end.
9. That the meml
all Constitutional Ci
spectivo Parliament
. representatives who ar«
nho will be prepared to
nber of men, employed
af money expended for
THE ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING.
Totkt. Editor of the  London. Inquirer.—
I see nothing to alter in my last letter; and
giving exclusive credence to their consurers,
see practiced. As I am under the greatest
obligations to Mr. Estlin, as one of my oldest
and most valued friends, 1 prefer saving no
more, than that I am quite assured that n»
injustice or unkindness was meant in th*
correction of the report, which, however, entirely misrepresents my real sentiments —
There may bo anessontial difference between
an antipathy and a prejudice; and between
3ijmpathiiin.il   in   a  prejudice, which implies
!';s;,'';";-,ir°!""
If any of my colovad brethren read thi*
note, they may feel assured, that  I  am not
likely in this land of liberty, where they ara
I   sympathy   which I
justly  the  objects
, pride in telling sla*
Douglass' fellow-suffer
allov mv fri.
:,July2
R. L. Cabpesieb.
Hi.avcs Mascmitted.—A company o
ml i i. .-...;
—"S planter,
ti wealthy planter,
~ Octibbehan Co.,
lati last week.—