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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Abolition Fanaticism in New York + Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition + Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847 + +Author: Frederick Douglass + +Release Date: January 11, 2011 [EBook #34915] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABOLITION FANATICISM IN NEW YORK *** + + + + +Produced by Norbert H. Langkau, David Garcia and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive and the Library of Congress) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div style="height: 6em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page1" name="page1"></a>[pg 1]</span></p> + +<p class="center"> +<i>PRICE SIX CENTS.</i> +</p> + +<h1> +ABOLITION +<br /> +FANATICISM +<br /> +IN NEW YORK. +</h1> + +<a name="image-0001"><!--IMG--></a> +<div class="figure"> +<a href="images/cover-l.jpg"><img src="images/cover-s.jpg" width="360" height="600" +alt="Cover" /></a> +</div> + +<h2> +SPEECH +<br /> +<small>OF A</small> +<br /> +RUNAWAY SLAVE FROM BALTIMORE, +<br /> +<small>AT AN</small> +<br /> +ABOLITION MEETING IN NEW YORK, +<br /> +<small>HELD MAY 11, 1847.</small> +</h2> + +<p class="center"> +1847. +</p> + +<p class="center"> +FOR SALE AT ALL THE PERIODICAL AGENCIES. +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page2" name="page2"></a>[pg 2]</span></p> + + +<a name="h2H_4_0001" id="h2H_4_0001"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> +<small>FLAMING</small> +<br /> +ABOLITION SPEECH +<br /> +<small>DELIVERED BY THE RUNAWAY SLAVE,</small> +<br /> +FREDERICK DOUGLASS, +<br /> +<small>At the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society,</small> +<br /> +<small>IN THE TABERNACLE, NEW YORK, MAY 11, 1847.</small> +</h2> + +<p> +The following Report will show to Marylanders, how a runaway slave +talks, when he reaches the Abolition regions of the country. This +presumptive negro was even present at the London World's Temperance +Convention, last year; and in spite of all the efforts of the American +Delegates to prevent it, he palmed off his Abolition bombast upon an +audience of 7000 persons! Of this high-handed measure he now makes his +boast in New-York, one of the hot-beds of Abolitionism. The Report is +given exactly as published in the New-York Tribune. The reader will +make his own comments. +</p> +<p> +Mr. <span class="sc">Douglass</span> was introduced to the audience by <span class="sc">Wm. Lloyd +Garrison</span>, Esq., President of the American Anti-Slavery Society, +and, upon taking the platform, was greeted with enthusiastic and +long-continued applause by the vast concourse which filled the spacious +Tabernacle to overflowing. As soon as the audience became silent, Mr. D. +with, at first, a slight degree of embarrassment, addressed them as +follows: +</p> +<p> +"I am very glad to be here. I am very glad to be present at this +Anniversary—glad again to mingle my voice with those with whom I have +stood identified, with those with whom I have labored, for the last +seven years, for the purpose of undoing the burdens of my brethren, +and hastening the day of their emancipation. +</p> +<p> +I do not doubt but that a large portion of this audience will be +disappointed, both by the <i>manner</i> and the <i>matter</i> of what I shall +this day set forth. The extraordinary and unmerited eulogies which have +been showered upon me, here and elsewhere, have done much to create +expectations which, I am well aware, I can never hope to gratify. I am +here, a simple man, knowing what I have experienced in Slavery, knowing +it to be a bad system, and desiring, by all Christian means, to seek its +overthrow. I am not here to please you with an eloquent speech, with a +refined and logical address, but to speak to you the sober truths of a +heart overborne with gratitude to God that we have in this land, cursed +as it is with Slavery, so noble a band to second my efforts and the +efforts of others in the noble work of undoing the Yoke of Bondage, with +which the majority of the States of this Union are now unfortunately +cursed. +</p> +<p> +Since the last time I had the pleasure of mingling my voice with the +voices of my friends on this platform, many interesting and even trying +events have occurred to me. I have experienced, within the last eighteen +or twenty months, many incidents, all of which it would be interesting +to communicate to you; but many of these I shall be compelled to pass +over at this time, and confine my remarks to giving a general outline of +the manner and spirit with which I have been hailed abroad, and welcomed + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page3" name="page3"></a>[pg 3]</span> + +at the different places which I have visited during my absence of +twenty months. +</p> +<p> +You are aware, doubtless, that my object in going from this country, was +to get beyond the reach of the clutch of the man who claimed to own me +as his property. I had written a book giving a history of that portion +of my life spent in the gall and bitterness and degradation of Slavery, +and in which I also identified my oppressors as the perpetrators of some +of the most atrocious crimes. This had deeply incensed them against me, +and stirred up within them the purpose of revenge, and my whereabouts +being known, I believed it necessary for me, if I would preserve my +liberty, to leave the shores of America, and take up my abode in some +other land, at least until the excitement occasioned by the publication +of my Narrative had subsided. I went to England, Monarchical England, to +get rid of Democratic Slavery, and I must confess that, at the very +threshold, I was satisfied that I had gone to the right place. Say what +you will of England—of the degradation—of the poverty—and there is +much of it there—say what you will of the oppression and suffering +going on in England at this time, there is Liberty there—there is +Freedom there, not only for the white man, but for the black man also. +The instant I stepped upon the shore, and looked into the faces of the +crowd around me, I saw in every man a recognition of my manhood, and an +absence, a perfect absence, of everything like that disgusting hate with +which we are pursued in this country. [Cheers.] I looked around in vain +to see in any man's face a token of the slightest aversion to me on +account of my complexion. Even the cabmen demeaned themselves to me +as they did to other men, and the very dogs and pigs of old England +treated me as a man! I cannot, however, my friends, dwell upon this +anti-Prejudice, or rather the many illustrations of the absence of +Prejudice against Color in England—but will proceed, at once, to defend +the Right and Duty of invoking English aid and English sympathy for the +overthrow of American Slavery, for the education of Colored Americans, +and to forward in every way, the interests of humanity; inasmuch as the +right of appealing to England for aid in overthrowing Slavery in this +country, has been called in question, in public meetings and by the +press, in this city. +</p> +<p> +I cannot agree with my friend Mr. Garrison in relation to my love and +attachment to this land. I have no love for America, as such; I have no +patriotism. I have no country. What country have I? The Institutions +of this country do not know me—do not recognize me as a man. I am +not thought of, spoken of, in any direction, out of the Anti-Slavery +ranks, as a man. I am not thought of or spoken of, except as a piece +of property belonging to some <i>Christian</i> Slaveholder, and all the +Religious and Political Institutions of this Country alike pronounce +me a Slave and a chattel. Now, in such a country as this I cannot have +patriotism. The only thing that links me to this land is my family, and +the painful consciousness that here there are 3,000,000 of my fellow +creatures groaning beneath the iron rod of the worst despotism that +could be devised even in Pandemonium,—that here are men and brethren +who are identified with me by their complexion, identified with me +by their hatred of Slavery, identified with me by their love and +aspirations for Liberty, identified with me by the stripes upon their +backs, their inhuman wrongs and cruel sufferings. This, and this only, +attaches me to this land, and brings me here to plead with you, and +with this country at large, for the disenthrallment of my oppressed +countrymen, and to overthrow this system of + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page4" name="page4"></a>[pg 4]</span> + + Slavery which is crushing +them to the earth. How can I love a country that dooms 3,000,000 of my +brethren, some of them my own kindred, my own brothers, my own sisters, +who are now clanking the chains of Slavery upon the plains of the South, +whose warm blood is now making fat the soil of Maryland and of Alabama, +and over whose crushed spirits rolls the dark shadow of Oppression, +shutting out and extinguishing forever the cheering rays of that bright +Sun of Liberty, lighted in the souls of all God's children by the +omnipotent hand of Deity itself? How can I, I say, love a country thus +cursed, thus bedewed with the blood of my brethren? A Country, the +Church of which, and the Government of which, and the Constitution of +which are in favor of supporting and perpetuating this monstrous system +of injustice and blood? I have not, I cannot have, any love for this +country, as such, or for its Constitution. I desire to see it overthrown +as speedily as possible and its Constitution shivered in a thousand +fragments, rather than this foul curse should continue to remain as now. +[Hisses and cheers.] +</p> +<p> +In all this, my friends, let me make myself understood. I do not hate +America as against England, or against any other country or land. I love +Humanity all over the globe. I am anxious to see Righteousness prevail +in all directions. I am anxious to see Slavery overthrown here; but, I +never appealed to Englishmen in a manner calculated to awaken feelings +of hatred or disgust, or to inflame their prejudices toward America as a +nation, or in a manner provocative of national jealousy or ill-will; but +I always appealed to their conscience—to the higher and nobler feelings +of the people of that country, to enlist them in this cause. I always +appealed to their manhood, that which preceded their being Englishmen, +(to quote an expression of my friend Phillips,) I appealed to them as +men, and I had a right to do so. They are men, and the Slave is a man, +and we have a right to call upon all men to assist in breaking his +bonds, let them be born when and live where they may. +</p> +<p> +But it is asked, 'What good will this do?' or 'What good has it done?' +'Have you not irritated, have you not annoyed your American friends and +the American people rather than done them good?' I admit that we have +irritated them. They deserve to be irritated. I am anxious to irritate +the American people on this question. As it is in physics, so in morals, +there are cases which demand irritation and counter-irritation. The +conscience of the American public needs this irritation, and I would +<i>blister it all over from centre to circumference</i>, until it gives signs +of a purer and a better life than it is now manifesting to the world. +</p> +<p> +But why expose the sins of one nation in the eyes of another? Why +attempt to bring one people under the odium of another people? There +is much force in this question. I admit that there are sins in almost +every country which can be best removed by means confined exclusively +to their immediate locality. But such evils and such sins pre-suppose +the existence of a moral power in their immediate locality sufficient +to accomplish the work of renovation. But, where, pray, can we go to +find moral power in this nation sufficient to overthrow Slavery? To what +institution, to what party shall we apply for aid? I say we admit that +there are evils which can be best removed by influences confined to +their immediate locality. But in regard to American Slavery it is not +so. It is such a giant crime, so darkening to the soul, so blinding +in its moral influence, so well calculated to blast and corrupt all +the humane principles of our nature, so well adapted to infuse its +own accursed spirit into all around it, that the people among whom +it exists have not the moral power + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page5" name="page5"></a>[pg 5]</span> + + to abolish it. Shall we go to the +Church for this influence? We have heard its character described. Shall +we go to Politicians or Political Parties? Have they the moral power +necessary to accomplish this mighty task? They have not. What are they +doing at this moment? Voting supplies for Slavery—voting supplies for +the extension, the stability, the perpetuation of Slavery in this land. +What is the press doing? The same. The pulpit? Almost the same. I do +not flatter myself that there is moral power in the land sufficient to +overthrow Slavery, and I welcome the aid of England. And that aid will +come. The growing intercourse between England and this country, by +means of steam navigation, the relaxation of the protective system in +various countries in Europe, gives us an opportunity to bring in the +aid, the moral and Christian aid of those living on the other side of the +Atlantic. We welcome it in the language of the resolution. We entreat +our British friends to continue to send their remonstrances across the +deep against Slavery in this land. And these remonstrances will have +a powerful effect here. Sir, the Americans may tell of their ability, +and I have no doubt they have it, to keep back the invader's hosts, +to repulse the strongest force that its enemies may send against this +country. It may boast, and <i>rightly</i> boast of its capacity to build its +ramparts so high that no foe can hope to scale them—to render them so +impregnable as to defy the assaults of the world. But, sir, there is one +thing it cannot resist, come from what quarter it may. It cannot resist +<span class="sc">TRUTH</span>. You cannot build your forts so strong, nor your ramparts +so high, nor arm yourselves so powerfully, as to be able to withstand +the overwhelming <span class="sc">MORAL SENTIMENT</span> against Slavery now flowing +into this land. For example: Prejudice against Color is continually +becoming weaker in this land; and why? Because the whole European +Continent denounces this sentiment as unworthy a lodgment in the breast +of an enlightened community. And the American abroad dares not now, even +in a public conveyance, to lift his voice in defence of this disgusting +prejudice. +</p> +<p> +I do not mean to say that there are no practices abroad which deserve +to receive an influence, favorable to their extermination, from America. +I am most glad to know that Democratic Freedom—not the bastard Democracy +which, while loud in its protestations of regard for Liberty and +Equality, builds up Slavery, and, in the name of Freedom fights the +battles of Despotism—is making great strides in Europe. We see, abroad, +in England especially, happy indications of the progress of American +principles. A little while ago England was cursed by a Corn monopoly—by +that giant monopoly which snatched from the mouths of the famishing Poor +the bread which you sent from this land. The community—the <i>people</i> of +England demanded its destruction, and they have triumphed! We have aided +them, and they aid us, and the mission of the two nations, henceforth, +is <i>to serve each other</i>. +</p> +<p> +Sir, it is said that, when abroad, I misrepresented my country on this +question. I am not aware of any misrepresentation. I stated facts and +facts only. A gentleman of your own City, Rev. Dr. Cox, has taken +particular pains to stigmatize me as having introduced the subject of +Slavery illegitimately into the World's Temperance Convention. But what +was the fact? I went to that Convention, not as a Delegate—I went into +it by the invitation of a Committee of the Convention. I suppose most +of you know the circumstances, but I wish to say one word in relation to +the spirit and the principle which animated me at that meeting. I went +into it at the invitation of the Committee, and spoke not only at their +urgent + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page6" name="page6"></a>[pg 6]</span> + + request, but by public announcement. I stood on the platform on +the evening referred to, and heard some eight or ten Americans address +the 7,000 people assembled in that vast Hall. I heard them speak of the +Temperance movement in the land. I heard them eulogize the Temperance +Societies in the highest terms, calling on England to follow their +example (and England may follow them with advantage to herself;) but +I heard no reference made to the 3,000,000 of people in this country +who are denied the privilege, not only of Temperance, but of all other +Societies. I heard not a word of the American Slaves, who, if seven +of them were found together at a Temperance meeting or any other +place, would be scourged and beaten by their cruel tyrants. Yes, +nine-and-thirty lashes is the penalty required to be inflicted by the +law if any of the Slaves get together in a number exceeding seven, for +any purpose, however peaceable or laudable. And while these American +gentlemen were extending their hands to me, and saying, 'How do you do, +Mr. Douglass? I am most happy to meet you here,' &c. &c. I knew that, in +America, they would not have touched me with a pair of tongues. I felt, +therefore, that that was the place and the time to call to remembrance +the 3,000,000 of Slaves, whom I aspired to represent on that occasion. +I did so, not maliciously, but with a desire, only, to subserve the best +interests of my race. I besought the American Delegates who had at first +responded to my speech with shouts of applause, when they should arrive +at home, to extend the borders of their Temperance Societies, so as to +include the 500,000 Colored People in the Northern States of the Union. +I also called to mind the facts in relation to the mob that occurred in +the City of Philadelphia in the year 1842. I stated these facts to show +to the British public how difficult it is for a colored man in this +country to do anything to elevate himself or his race from the state +of degradation in which they are plunged; how difficult it is for him +to be virtuous or temperate, or anything but a menial, an outcast. +You all remember the circumstances of the mob to which I have alluded. +A number of intelligent, philanthropic, manly colored men, desirous +of snatching their colored brethren from the fangs of intemperance, +formed themselves into a procession and walked through the streets of +Philadelphia with appropriate banners, and badges, and mottoes. I stated +the fact that that procession was not allowed to proceed far, in the +City of Philadelphia—the American City of Brotherly Love, the city of +all others loudest in its boasts of freedom and liberty—before these +noble-minded men were assaulted by the citizens, their banners torn in +shreds and themselves trampled in the dust, and inhumanly beaten, and +all their bright and fond hopes and anticipations in behalf of their +friends and their race blasted by the wanton cruelty of their white +fellow citizens. And all this was done for no other reason than that +they had presumed to walk through the streets with Temperance banners +and badges, like human beings. +</p> +<p> +The statement of this fact caused the whole Convention to break forth +in one general expression of intense disgust at such atrocious and +inhuman conduct. This disturbed the composure of some of our American +representatives, who, in serious alarm, caught hold of the skirts of +my coat, and attempted to make me desist from my exposition of the +situation of the colored race in this country. There was one Doctor of +Divinity there—the ugliest man that I ever saw in my life—who almost +tore the skirts of my coat off, so vehement was he in his <i>friendly</i> +attempts to induce me to yield the floor. But fortunately the audience +came to my rescue, and demanded that I should go on, and I did go on, +and, I trust, + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page7" name="page7"></a>[pg 7]</span> + + discharged my duty to my brethren in bonds and the cause +of Human Liberty, in a manner not altogether unworthy the occasion. +</p> +<p> +I have been accused of <i>dragging</i> the question of Slavery into the +Convention. I had a right to do so. It was the <i>World's</i> Convention—not +the Convention of any sect or number of sects—not the convention of any +particular Nation—not a man's nor a woman's Convention, not a black +man's nor a white man's Convention, but the <i>World's</i> Convention, the +convention of <span class="sc">ALL</span>, <i>black</i> as well as <i>white</i>, <i>bond</i> as well +as <i>free</i>. And I stood there, as I thought, a representative of +3,000,000 of men whom I had left in rags and wretchedness to be devoured +by the accursed Institution which stands by them, as with a drawn sword, +ever ready to fall upon their devoted and defenceless heads. I felt, as +I said to Dr. Cox, that it was demanded of me by Conscience, to speak +out boldly in behalf of those whom I had left behind. [Cheers.] And, +sir, (I think I may say this, without subjecting myself to the charge of +egotism) I deem it very fortunate for the friends of the Slave, that Mr. +Garrison and myself were there just at that time. Sir, the Churches in +this country have long repined at the position of the Churches in +England on the subject of Slavery. They have sought many opportunities +to do away the prejudices of the English Churches against American +Slavery. Why, sir, at this time there were not far from Seventy +Ministers of the Gospel from Christian America, in England, pouring +their leprous pro-slavery distilment into the ears of the people of that +country, and by their prayers, their conversation and their public +speeches, seeking to darken the British mind on the subject of Slavery, +and to create in the English public the same cruel and heartless apathy +that prevails in this country in relation to the Slave, his wrongs and +his rights. I knew them by their continuous slandering of my race, and +at this time, and under these circumstances, I deemed it a happy +interposition of God, in behalf of my oppressed, and misrepresented, and +slandered people, that one of their number should be able to break his +chains and burst up through the dark incrustations of malice and hate +and degradation which had been thrown over them, and stand before the +British public to open to them the secrets of the prison-house of +bondage in America. [Cheers.] Sir, the Slave sends no Delegates to the +Evangelical Alliance. [Cheers.] The Slave sends no Delegates to the +World's Temperance Convention. Why? Because chains are upon his arms, +and fetters fast bind his limbs. He must be driven out to be sold at +auction by some <i>Christian</i> Slaveholder, and the money for which his +soul is bartered must be appropriated to spread the Gospel among the +Heathen. +</p> +<p> +Sir, I feel it is good to be here. There is always work to be done. +Slavery is everywhere. Slavery goes out in the Cambria and comes back in +the Cambria. Slavery was in the Evangelical Alliance, looking saintly +in the person of Rev. Doctor Smythe; it was in the World's Temperance +Convention, in the person of Rev. Mr. Kirk. Dr. Marsh went about saying, +in so many words, that the unfortunate Slaveholders in America were so +peculiarly situated, so environed by uncontrollable circumstances that +they could not liberate their slaves; that if they were to emancipate +them they would be, in many instances, cast into prison. Sir, it did +me good to go around on the heels of this gentleman. I was glad to +follow him around for the sake of my country, for the country is not, +after all, so bad as Rev. Dr. Marsh represented it to be. My fellow +countrymen, what think ye he said of you, on the other side of the +Atlantic? He said you were not only pro-Slavery, but that you actually + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page8" name="page8"></a>[pg 8]</span> + +aided the Slaveholder in holding his Slaves securely in his grasp; that, +in fact, you compelled him to be a Slaveholder. This I deny. You are not +so bad as that. You do not compel the Slaveholder to be a Slaveholder. +</p> +<p> +And Rev. Doctor Cox, too, talked a great deal over there, and among +other things, he said that 'many Slave-holders—dear Christian +men!—were sincerely anxious to get rid of their slaves;' and to show +how difficult it is for them to get rid of their human chattels, he put +the following case: A man living in a State, the laws of which compel +all persons emancipating their slaves to remove them beyond its limits, +wishes to liberate his slaves; but he is too poor to transport them +beyond the confines of the State in which he resides; therefore he +cannot emancipate them—he is necessarily a slaveholder. But, sir, there +was one fact, which I happened, fortunately, to have on hand just at +that time, which completely neutralized this very affecting statement of +the Doctor's. It so happens that Messrs. Gerrit Smith and Arthur Tappan +have advertised for the especial benefit of this afflicted class of +Slaveholders, that they have set apart the sum of $10,000, to be +appropriated in aiding them to remove their emancipated Slaves beyond +the jurisdiction of the State, and that the money would be forthcoming +on application being made for it; but <i>no such application was ever +made</i>. This shows that however truthful the statements of these +gentlemen may be concerning the things of the world to come, they are +lamentably reckless in their statements concerning things appertaining +to this world. I do not mean to say that they would designedly tell that +which is false; but they did make the statements which I have ascribed +to them. +</p> +<p> +And Doct. Cox and others charge me with having stirred up warlike +feeling while abroad. This charge, also, I deny. The whole of my +arguments and the whole of my appeals, while I was abroad, were in favor +of any thing else than war. I embraced every opportunity to propagate +the principles of Peace while I was in Great Britain. I confess, +honestly, that were I not a Peace man, were I a believer in fighting +at all, I should have gone through England, saying to Englishmen, <i>as</i> +Englishmen, 'There are 3,000,000 of men across the Atlantic who are +whipped, scourged, robbed of themselves, denied every privilege, denied +the right to read the Word of the God who made them, trampled under +foot, denied all the rights of human beings; go to their rescue; +shoulder your muskets, buckle on your knapsacks, and in the invincible +cause of Human Rights and Universal Liberty, go forth, and the laurels +which you shall win will be as fadeless and as imperishable as the +eternal aspirations of the human soul after that Freedom which every +being made after God's image instinctively feels is his birthright.' +This would have been my course had I been a war man. That such was not +my course, I appeal to my whole career while abroad to determine. +</p> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<p class="i2"> Weapons of war we have cast from the battle: </p> +<p class="i4"> <span class="sc">Truth</span> is our armor—our watchword is <span class="sc">Love</span>; </p> +<p class="i2"> Hushed be the sword, and the musketry's rattle, </p> +<p class="i4"> All our equipments are drawn from above. </p> +<p class="i10"> Praise then the God of Truth, </p> +<p class="i10"> Hoary age and ruddy youth. </p> +<p class="i10"> Long may our rally be </p> +<p class="i10"> Love, Light and Liberty; </p> +<p class="i4"> Ever our banner the banner of Peace." </p> +</div> +</div> + +<p> +Mr. Douglass took his seat in the midst of the most enthusiastic and +overwhelming applause in which the whole of the vast assembly appeared +heartily to join. +</p> + +<div style="height: 6em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<p> +[Transcriber's Note: This text has been transcribed from Library of +Congress scans of a pamphlet printed in Baltimore MD which has minor +damage at the outer lower corners. Because no other copies of this exact +pamphlet are available, the obscured text has been supplied from the +same edition of the New York (Daily) Tribune which is referred to as +the source in the pamphlet's introductory paragraph: "Country, Conscience, +and the Anti-Slavery Cause: An Address Delivered in New York, New York, +May 11, 1847." New York Daily Tribune, 13 May 1847.] +</p> + +<div style="height: 6em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Abolition Fanaticism in New York, by +Frederick Douglass + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABOLITION FANATICISM IN NEW YORK *** + +***** This file should be named 34915-h.htm or 34915-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/4/9/1/34915/ + +Produced by Norbert H. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Abolition Fanaticism in New York + Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition + Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847 + +Author: Frederick Douglass + +Release Date: January 11, 2011 [EBook #34915] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABOLITION FANATICISM IN NEW YORK *** + + + + +Produced by Norbert H. Langkau, David Garcia and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive and the Library of Congress) + + + + + + + + + + + +_PRICE SIX CENTS._ + +ABOLITION FANATICISM IN NEW YORK. + +[Illustration] + +SPEECH OF A RUNAWAY SLAVE FROM BALTIMORE, +AT AN ABOLITION MEETING IN NEW YORK, +HELD MAY 11, 1847. + +1847. + +FOR SALE AT ALL THE PERIODICAL AGENCIES. + + + + + FLAMING + ABOLITION SPEECH + DELIVERED BY THE RUNAWAY SLAVE, + FREDERICK DOUGLASS, + + At the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, + + IN THE TABERNACLE, NEW YORK, MAY 11, 1847. + + +The following Report will show to Marylanders, how a runaway slave +talks, when he reaches the Abolition regions of the country. This +presumptive negro was even present at the London World's Temperance +Convention, last year; and in spite of all the efforts of the American +Delegates to prevent it, he palmed off his Abolition bombast upon an +audience of 7000 persons! Of this high-handed measure he now makes his +boast in New-York, one of the hot-beds of Abolitionism. The Report is +given exactly as published in the New-York Tribune. The reader will +make his own comments. + +Mr. DOUGLASS was introduced to the audience by WM. LLOYD GARRISON, +Esq., President of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and, upon taking +the platform, was greeted with enthusiastic and long-continued +applause by the vast concourse which filled the spacious Tabernacle +to overflowing. As soon as the audience became silent, Mr. D. with, at +first, a slight degree of embarrassment, addressed them as follows: + +"I am very glad to be here. I am very glad to be present at this +Anniversary--glad again to mingle my voice with those with whom I have +stood identified, with those with whom I have labored, for the last +seven years, for the purpose of undoing the burdens of my brethren, +and hastening the day of their emancipation. + +I do not doubt but that a large portion of this audience will be +disappointed, both by the _manner_ and the _matter_ of what I shall +this day set forth. The extraordinary and unmerited eulogies which have +been showered upon me, here and elsewhere, have done much to create +expectations which, I am well aware, I can never hope to gratify. I am +here, a simple man, knowing what I have experienced in Slavery, knowing +it to be a bad system, and desiring, by all Christian means, to seek its +overthrow. I am not here to please you with an eloquent speech, with a +refined and logical address, but to speak to you the sober truths of a +heart overborne with gratitude to God that we have in this land, cursed +as it is with Slavery, so noble a band to second my efforts and the +efforts of others in the noble work of undoing the Yoke of Bondage, with +which the majority of the States of this Union are now unfortunately +cursed. + +Since the last time I had the pleasure of mingling my voice with the +voices of my friends on this platform, many interesting and even trying +events have occurred to me. I have experienced, within the last eighteen +or twenty months, many incidents, all of which it would be interesting +to communicate to you; but many of these I shall be compelled to pass +over at this time, and confine my remarks to giving a general outline of +the manner and spirit with which I have been hailed abroad, and welcomed +at the different places which I have visited during my absence of +twenty months. + +You are aware, doubtless, that my object in going from this country, was +to get beyond the reach of the clutch of the man who claimed to own me +as his property. I had written a book giving a history of that portion +of my life spent in the gall and bitterness and degradation of Slavery, +and in which I also identified my oppressors as the perpetrators of some +of the most atrocious crimes. This had deeply incensed them against me, +and stirred up within them the purpose of revenge, and my whereabouts +being known, I believed it necessary for me, if I would preserve my +liberty, to leave the shores of America, and take up my abode in some +other land, at least until the excitement occasioned by the publication +of my Narrative had subsided. I went to England, Monarchical England, to +get rid of Democratic Slavery, and I must confess that, at the very +threshold, I was satisfied that I had gone to the right place. Say what +you will of England--of the degradation--of the poverty--and there is +much of it there--say what you will of the oppression and suffering +going on in England at this time, there is Liberty there--there is +Freedom there, not only for the white man, but for the black man also. +The instant I stepped upon the shore, and looked into the faces of the +crowd around me, I saw in every man a recognition of my manhood, and an +absence, a perfect absence, of everything like that disgusting hate with +which we are pursued in this country. [Cheers.] I looked around in vain +to see in any man's face a token of the slightest aversion to me on +account of my complexion. Even the cabmen demeaned themselves to me +as they did to other men, and the very dogs and pigs of old England +treated me as a man! I cannot, however, my friends, dwell upon this +anti-Prejudice, or rather the many illustrations of the absence of +Prejudice against Color in England--but will proceed, at once, to defend +the Right and Duty of invoking English aid and English sympathy for the +overthrow of American Slavery, for the education of Colored Americans, +and to forward in every way, the interests of humanity; inasmuch as the +right of appealing to England for aid in overthrowing Slavery in this +country, has been called in question, in public meetings and by the +press, in this city. + +I cannot agree with my friend Mr. Garrison in relation to my love and +attachment to this land. I have no love for America, as such; I have no +patriotism. I have no country. What country have I? The Institutions +of this country do not know me--do not recognize me as a man. I am +not thought of, spoken of, in any direction, out of the Anti-Slavery +ranks, as a man. I am not thought of or spoken of, except as a piece +of property belonging to some _Christian_ Slaveholder, and all the +Religious and Political Institutions of this Country alike pronounce +me a Slave and a chattel. Now, in such a country as this I cannot have +patriotism. The only thing that links me to this land is my family, and +the painful consciousness that here there are 3,000,000 of my fellow +creatures groaning beneath the iron rod of the worst despotism that +could be devised even in Pandemonium,--that here are men and brethren +who are identified with me by their complexion, identified with me +by their hatred of Slavery, identified with me by their love and +aspirations for Liberty, identified with me by the stripes upon their +backs, their inhuman wrongs and cruel sufferings. This, and this only, +attaches me to this land, and brings me here to plead with you, and +with this country at large, for the disenthrallment of my oppressed +countrymen, and to overthrow this system of Slavery which is crushing +them to the earth. How can I love a country that dooms 3,000,000 of my +brethren, some of them my own kindred, my own brothers, my own sisters, +who are now clanking the chains of Slavery upon the plains of the South, +whose warm blood is now making fat the soil of Maryland and of Alabama, +and over whose crushed spirits rolls the dark shadow of Oppression, +shutting out and extinguishing forever the cheering rays of that bright +Sun of Liberty, lighted in the souls of all God's children by the +omnipotent hand of Deity itself? How can I, I say, love a country thus +cursed, thus bedewed with the blood of my brethren? A Country, the +Church of which, and the Government of which, and the Constitution of +which are in favor of supporting and perpetuating this monstrous system +of injustice and blood? I have not, I cannot have, any love for this +country, as such, or for its Constitution. I desire to see it overthrown +as speedily as possible and its Constitution shivered in a thousand +fragments, rather than this foul curse should continue to remain as now. +[Hisses and cheers.] + +In all this, my friends, let me make myself understood. I do not hate +America as against England, or against any other country or land. I love +Humanity all over the globe. I am anxious to see Righteousness prevail +in all directions. I am anxious to see Slavery overthrown here; but, I +never appealed to Englishmen in a manner calculated to awaken feelings +of hatred or disgust, or to inflame their prejudices toward America as a +nation, or in a manner provocative of national jealousy or ill-will; but +I always appealed to their conscience--to the higher and nobler feelings +of the people of that country, to enlist them in this cause. I always +appealed to their manhood, that which preceded their being Englishmen, +(to quote an expression of my friend Phillips,) I appealed to them as +men, and I had a right to do so. They are men, and the Slave is a man, +and we have a right to call upon all men to assist in breaking his +bonds, let them be born when and live where they may. + +But it is asked, 'What good will this do?' or 'What good has it done?' +'Have you not irritated, have you not annoyed your American friends and +the American people rather than done them good?' I admit that we have +irritated them. They deserve to be irritated. I am anxious to irritate +the American people on this question. As it is in physics, so in morals, +there are cases which demand irritation and counter-irritation. The +conscience of the American public needs this irritation, and I would +_blister it all over from centre to circumference_, until it gives signs +of a purer and a better life than it is now manifesting to the world. + +But why expose the sins of one nation in the eyes of another? Why +attempt to bring one people under the odium of another people? There +is much force in this question. I admit that there are sins in almost +every country which can be best removed by means confined exclusively +to their immediate locality. But such evils and such sins pre-suppose +the existence of a moral power in their immediate locality sufficient +to accomplish the work of renovation. But, where, pray, can we go to +find moral power in this nation sufficient to overthrow Slavery? To what +institution, to what party shall we apply for aid? I say we admit that +there are evils which can be best removed by influences confined to +their immediate locality. But in regard to American Slavery it is not +so. It is such a giant crime, so darkening to the soul, so blinding +in its moral influence, so well calculated to blast and corrupt all +the humane principles of our nature, so well adapted to infuse its +own accursed spirit into all around it, that the people among whom +it exists have not the moral power to abolish it. Shall we go to the +Church for this influence? We have heard its character described. Shall +we go to Politicians or Political Parties? Have they the moral power +necessary to accomplish this mighty task? They have not. What are they +doing at this moment? Voting supplies for Slavery--voting supplies for +the extension, the stability, the perpetuation of Slavery in this land. +What is the press doing? The same. The pulpit? Almost the same. I do +not flatter myself that there is moral power in the land sufficient to +overthrow Slavery, and I welcome the aid of England. And that aid will +come. The growing intercourse between England and this country, by +means of steam navigation, the relaxation of the protective system in +various countries in Europe, gives us an opportunity to bring in the +aid, the moral and Christian aid of those living on the other side of the +Atlantic. We welcome it in the language of the resolution. We entreat +our British friends to continue to send their remonstrances across the +deep against Slavery in this land. And these remonstrances will have +a powerful effect here. Sir, the Americans may tell of their ability, +and I have no doubt they have it, to keep back the invader's hosts, +to repulse the strongest force that its enemies may send against this +country. It may boast, and _rightly_ boast of its capacity to build its +ramparts so high that no foe can hope to scale them--to render them so +impregnable as to defy the assaults of the world. But, sir, there is one +thing it cannot resist, come from what quarter it may. It cannot resist +TRUTH. You cannot build your forts so strong, nor your ramparts so +high, nor arm yourselves so powerfully, as to be able to withstand the +overwhelming MORAL SENTIMENT against Slavery now flowing into this land. +For example: Prejudice against Color is continually becoming weaker +in this land; and why? Because the whole European Continent denounces +this sentiment as unworthy a lodgment in the breast of an enlightened +community. And the American abroad dares not now, even in a public +conveyance, to lift his voice in defence of this disgusting prejudice. + +I do not mean to say that there are no practices abroad which deserve +to receive an influence, favorable to their extermination, from America. +I am most glad to know that Democratic Freedom--not the bastard Democracy +which, while loud in its protestations of regard for Liberty and +Equality, builds up Slavery, and, in the name of Freedom fights the +battles of Despotism--is making great strides in Europe. We see, abroad, +in England especially, happy indications of the progress of American +principles. A little while ago England was cursed by a Corn monopoly--by +that giant monopoly which snatched from the mouths of the famishing Poor +the bread which you sent from this land. The community--the _people_ of +England demanded its destruction, and they have triumphed! We have aided +them, and they aid us, and the mission of the two nations, henceforth, +is _to serve each other_. + +Sir, it is said that, when abroad, I misrepresented my country on this +question. I am not aware of any misrepresentation. I stated facts and +facts only. A gentleman of your own City, Rev. Dr. Cox, has taken +particular pains to stigmatize me as having introduced the subject of +Slavery illegitimately into the World's Temperance Convention. But what +was the fact? I went to that Convention, not as a Delegate--I went into +it by the invitation of a Committee of the Convention. I suppose most +of you know the circumstances, but I wish to say one word in relation to +the spirit and the principle which animated me at that meeting. I went +into it at the invitation of the Committee, and spoke not only at their +urgent request, but by public announcement. I stood on the platform on +the evening referred to, and heard some eight or ten Americans address +the 7,000 people assembled in that vast Hall. I heard them speak of the +Temperance movement in the land. I heard them eulogize the Temperance +Societies in the highest terms, calling on England to follow their +example (and England may follow them with advantage to herself;) but +I heard no reference made to the 3,000,000 of people in this country +who are denied the privilege, not only of Temperance, but of all other +Societies. I heard not a word of the American Slaves, who, if seven +of them were found together at a Temperance meeting or any other +place, would be scourged and beaten by their cruel tyrants. Yes, +nine-and-thirty lashes is the penalty required to be inflicted by the +law if any of the Slaves get together in a number exceeding seven, for +any purpose, however peaceable or laudable. And while these American +gentlemen were extending their hands to me, and saying, 'How do you do, +Mr. Douglass? I am most happy to meet you here,' &c. &c. I knew that, in +America, they would not have touched me with a pair of tongues. I felt, +therefore, that that was the place and the time to call to remembrance +the 3,000,000 of Slaves, whom I aspired to represent on that occasion. +I did so, not maliciously, but with a desire, only, to subserve the best +interests of my race. I besought the American Delegates who had at first +responded to my speech with shouts of applause, when they should arrive +at home, to extend the borders of their Temperance Societies, so as to +include the 500,000 Colored People in the Northern States of the Union. +I also called to mind the facts in relation to the mob that occurred in +the City of Philadelphia in the year 1842. I stated these facts to show +to the British public how difficult it is for a colored man in this +country to do anything to elevate himself or his race from the state +of degradation in which they are plunged; how difficult it is for him +to be virtuous or temperate, or anything but a menial, an outcast. +You all remember the circumstances of the mob to which I have alluded. +A number of intelligent, philanthropic, manly colored men, desirous +of snatching their colored brethren from the fangs of intemperance, +formed themselves into a procession and walked through the streets of +Philadelphia with appropriate banners, and badges, and mottoes. I stated +the fact that that procession was not allowed to proceed far, in the +City of Philadelphia--the American City of Brotherly Love, the city of +all others loudest in its boasts of freedom and liberty--before these +noble-minded men were assaulted by the citizens, their banners torn in +shreds and themselves trampled in the dust, and inhumanly beaten, and +all their bright and fond hopes and anticipations in behalf of their +friends and their race blasted by the wanton cruelty of their white +fellow citizens. And all this was done for no other reason than that +they had presumed to walk through the streets with Temperance banners +and badges, like human beings. + +The statement of this fact caused the whole Convention to break forth +in one general expression of intense disgust at such atrocious and +inhuman conduct. This disturbed the composure of some of our American +representatives, who, in serious alarm, caught hold of the skirts of +my coat, and attempted to make me desist from my exposition of the +situation of the colored race in this country. There was one Doctor of +Divinity there--the ugliest man that I ever saw in my life--who almost +tore the skirts of my coat off, so vehement was he in his _friendly_ +attempts to induce me to yield the floor. But fortunately the audience +came to my rescue, and demanded that I should go on, and I did go on, +and, I trust, discharged my duty to my brethren in bonds and the cause +of Human Liberty, in a manner not altogether unworthy the occasion. + +I have been accused of _dragging_ the question of Slavery into the +Convention. I had a right to do so. It was the _World's_ Convention--not +the Convention of any sect or number of sects--not the convention of any +particular Nation--not a man's nor a woman's Convention, not a black +man's nor a white man's Convention, but the _World's_ Convention, the +convention of ALL, _black_ as well as _white_, _bond_ as well as _free_. +And I stood there, as I thought, a representative of 3,000,000 of men +whom I had left in rags and wretchedness to be devoured by the accursed +Institution which stands by them, as with a drawn sword, ever ready to +fall upon their devoted and defenceless heads. I felt, as I said to Dr. +Cox, that it was demanded of me by Conscience, to speak out boldly in +behalf of those whom I had left behind. [Cheers.] And, sir, (I think I +may say this, without subjecting myself to the charge of egotism) I deem +it very fortunate for the friends of the Slave, that Mr. Garrison and +myself were there just at that time. Sir, the Churches in this country +have long repined at the position of the Churches in England on the +subject of Slavery. They have sought many opportunities to do away the +prejudices of the English Churches against American Slavery. Why, sir, +at this time there were not far from Seventy Ministers of the Gospel +from Christian America, in England, pouring their leprous pro-slavery +distilment into the ears of the people of that country, and by their +prayers, their conversation and their public speeches, seeking to darken +the British mind on the subject of Slavery, and to create in the English +public the same cruel and heartless apathy that prevails in this country +in relation to the Slave, his wrongs and his rights. I knew them by +their continuous slandering of my race, and at this time, and under +these circumstances, I deemed it a happy interposition of God, in behalf +of my oppressed, and misrepresented, and slandered people, that one of +their number should be able to break his chains and burst up through the +dark incrustations of malice and hate and degradation which had been +thrown over them, and stand before the British public to open to them +the secrets of the prison-house of bondage in America. [Cheers.] Sir, +the Slave sends no Delegates to the Evangelical Alliance. [Cheers.] +The Slave sends no Delegates to the World's Temperance Convention. +Why? Because chains are upon his arms, and fetters fast bind his +limbs. He must be driven out to be sold at auction by some _Christian_ +Slaveholder, and the money for which his soul is bartered must be +appropriated to spread the Gospel among the Heathen. + +Sir, I feel it is good to be here. There is always work to be done. +Slavery is everywhere. Slavery goes out in the Cambria and comes back in +the Cambria. Slavery was in the Evangelical Alliance, looking saintly +in the person of Rev. Doctor Smythe; it was in the World's Temperance +Convention, in the person of Rev. Mr. Kirk. Dr. Marsh went about saying, +in so many words, that the unfortunate Slaveholders in America were so +peculiarly situated, so environed by uncontrollable circumstances that +they could not liberate their slaves; that if they were to emancipate +them they would be, in many instances, cast into prison. Sir, it did +me good to go around on the heels of this gentleman. I was glad to +follow him around for the sake of my country, for the country is not, +after all, so bad as Rev. Dr. Marsh represented it to be. My fellow +countrymen, what think ye he said of you, on the other side of the +Atlantic? He said you were not only pro-Slavery, but that you actually +aided the Slaveholder in holding his Slaves securely in his grasp; that, +in fact, you compelled him to be a Slaveholder. This I deny. You are not +so bad as that. You do not compel the Slaveholder to be a Slaveholder. + +And Rev. Doctor Cox, too, talked a great deal over there, and among +other things, he said that 'many Slave-holders--dear Christian +men!--were sincerely anxious to get rid of their slaves;' and to show +how difficult it is for them to get rid of their human chattels, he put +the following case: A man living in a State, the laws of which compel +all persons emancipating their slaves to remove them beyond its limits, +wishes to liberate his slaves; but he is too poor to transport them +beyond the confines of the State in which he resides; therefore he +cannot emancipate them--he is necessarily a slaveholder. But, sir, there +was one fact, which I happened, fortunately, to have on hand just at +that time, which completely neutralized this very affecting statement of +the Doctor's. It so happens that Messrs. Gerrit Smith and Arthur Tappan +have advertised for the especial benefit of this afflicted class of +Slaveholders, that they have set apart the sum of $10,000, to be +appropriated in aiding them to remove their emancipated Slaves beyond +the jurisdiction of the State, and that the money would be forthcoming +on application being made for it; but _no such application was ever +made_. This shows that however truthful the statements of these +gentlemen may be concerning the things of the world to come, they are +lamentably reckless in their statements concerning things appertaining +to this world. I do not mean to say that they would designedly tell that +which is false; but they did make the statements which I have ascribed +to them. + +And Doct. Cox and others charge me with having stirred up warlike +feeling while abroad. This charge, also, I deny. The whole of my +arguments and the whole of my appeals, while I was abroad, were in favor +of any thing else than war. I embraced every opportunity to propagate +the principles of Peace while I was in Great Britain. I confess, +honestly, that were I not a Peace man, were I a believer in fighting +at all, I should have gone through England, saying to Englishmen, _as_ +Englishmen, 'There are 3,000,000 of men across the Atlantic who are +whipped, scourged, robbed of themselves, denied every privilege, denied +the right to read the Word of the God who made them, trampled under +foot, denied all the rights of human beings; go to their rescue; +shoulder your muskets, buckle on your knapsacks, and in the invincible +cause of Human Rights and Universal Liberty, go forth, and the laurels +which you shall win will be as fadeless and as imperishable as the +eternal aspirations of the human soul after that Freedom which every +being made after God's image instinctively feels is his birthright.' +This would have been my course had I been a war man. That such was not +my course, I appeal to my whole career while abroad to determine. + + Weapons of war we have cast from the battle: + TRUTH is our armor--our watchword is LOVE; + Hushed be the sword, and the musketry's rattle, + All our equipments are drawn from above. + Praise then the God of Truth, + Hoary age and ruddy youth. + Long may our rally be + Love, Light and Liberty; + Ever our banner the banner of Peace." + +Mr. Douglass took his seat in the midst of the most enthusiastic and +overwhelming applause in which the whole of the vast assembly appeared +heartily to join. + + +[Transcriber's Note: This text has been transcribed from Library of +Congress scans of a pamphlet printed in Baltimore MD which has minor +damage at the outer lower corners. Because no other copies of this exact +pamphlet are available, the obscured text has been supplied from the +same edition of the New York (Daily) Tribune which is referred to as +the source in the pamphlet's introductory paragraph: "Country, Conscience, +and the Anti-Slavery Cause: An Address Delivered in New York, New York, +May 11, 1847." New York Daily Tribune, 13 May 1847.] + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Abolition Fanaticism in New York, by +Frederick Douglass + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABOLITION FANATICISM IN NEW YORK *** + +***** This file should be named 34915.txt or 34915.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/4/9/1/34915/ + +Produced by Norbert H. 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