,,price ,,six ,,cents4  ,,abolition     
,,fanaticism ,,in ,,new ,,york4         
,illustration  ,,speech ,,of ,a         
,,runaway ,,slave ,,from ,,baltimore1   
,,at ,,an ,,abolition ,,meeting ,,in    
,,new ,,york1 ,,held ,,may #aa1 #ahdg4  
#ahdg4  ,,for ,,sale ,,at ,,all ,,the   
,,periodical ,,agencies4       ,,flaming
   ,,abolition ,,speech   ,,delivered   
,,by ,,the ,,runaway ,,slave1           
,,frederick ,,douglass1    ,at the      
,anniversary of the ,american           
,anti-,slavery ,society1    ,,in ,,the  
,,tabernacle1 ,,new ,,york1 ,,may #aa1  
#ahdg4   ,the following ,report will    
show to ,marylanders1 how a runaway     
slave talks1 when he reaches the        
,abolition regions of the country4 ,this
 presumptive negro was even present at  
the ,london ,world's ,temperance        
,convention1 last year2 and in spite of 
all the efforts of the ,american        
,delegates to prevent it1 he palmed off 
his ,abolition bombast upon an audience 
of #gjjj persons6 ,of this high-handed  

measure he now makes his boast in       
,new-,york1 one of the hot-beds of      
,abolitionism4 ,the ,report is given    
exactly as published in the ,new-,york  
,tribune4 ,the reader will make his own 
comments4  ,mr4 ,,douglass was          
introduced to the audience by ,,wm4     
,,lloyd ,,garrison1 ,esq41 ,president of
 the ,american ,anti-,slavery ,society1 
and1 upon taking the platform1 was      
greeted with enthusiastic and           
long-continued applause by the vast     
concourse which filled the spacious     
,tabernacle to overflowing4 ,as soon as 
the audience became silent1 ,mr4 ,d4    
with1 at first1 a slight degree of      
embarrassment1 addressed them as        
follows3  ,i am very glad to be here4 ,i
 am very glad to be present at this     
,anniversary--glad again to mingle my   
voice with those with whom ,i have stood
 identified1 with those with whom ,i    
have labored1 for the last seven years1 
for the purpose of undoing the burdens  
of my brethren1 and hastening the day of

 their emancipation4  ,i do not doubt   
but that a large portion of this        
audience will be disappointed1 both by  
the manner and the matter of what ,i    
shall this day set forth4 ,the          
extraordinary and unmerited eulogies    
which have been showered upon me1 here  
and elsewhere1 have done much to create 
expectations which1 ,i am well aware1 ,i
 can never hope to gratify4 ,i am here1 
a simple man1 knowing what ,i have      
experienced in ,slavery1 knowing it to  
be a bad system1 and desiring1 by all   
,christian means1 to seek its overthrow4
 ,i am not here to please you with an   
eloquent speech1 with a refined and     
logical address1 but to speak to you the
 sober truths of a heart overborne with 
gratitude to ,god that we have in this  
land1 cursed as it is with ,slavery1 so 
noble a band to second my efforts and   
the efforts of others in the noble work 
of undoing the ,yoke of ,bondage1 with  
which the majority of the ,states of    
this ,union are now unfortunately       

cursed4  ,since the last time ,i had the
 pleasure of mingling my voice with the 
voices of my friends on this platform1  
many interesting and even trying events 
have occurred to me4 ,i have            
experienced1 within the last eighteen or
 twenty months1 many incidents1 all of  
which it would be interesting to        
communicate to you2 but many of these ,i
 shall be compelled to pass over at this
 time1 and confine my remarks to giving 
a general outline of the manner and     
spirit with which ,i have been hailed   
abroad1 and welcomed at the different   
places which ,i have visited during my  
absence of twenty months4  ,you are     
aware1 doubtless1 that my object in     
going from this country1 was to get     
beyond the reach of the clutch of the   
man who claimed to own me as his        
property4 ,i had written a book giving a
 history of that portion of my life     
spent in the gall and bitterness and    
degradation of ,slavery1 and in which ,i
 also identified my oppressors as the   

perpetrators of some of the most        
atrocious crimes4 ,this had deeply      
incensed them against me1 and stirred up
 within them the purpose of revenge1 and
 my whereabouts being known1 ,i believed
 it necessary for me1 if ,i would       
preserve my liberty1 to leave the shores
 of ,america1 and take up my abode in   
some other land1 at least until the     
excitement occasioned by the publication
 of my ,narrative had subsided4 ,i went 
to ,england1 ,monarchical ,england1 to  
get rid of ,democratic ,slavery1 and ,i 
must confess that1 at the very          
threshold1 ,i was satisfied that ,i had 
gone to the right place4 ,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 time1 there is ,liberty
 there--there is ,freedom there1 not    
only for the white man1 but for the     
black man also4 ,the instant ,i stepped 
upon the shore1 and looked into the     

faces of the crowd around me1 ,i saw in 
every man a recognition of my manhood1  
and an absence1 a perfect absence1 of   
everything like that disgusting hate    
with which we are pursued in this       
country4 ,cheers4 ,i looked around in   
vain to see in any man's face a token of
 the slightest aversion to me on account
 of my complexion4 ,even the cabmen     
demeaned themselves to me as they did to
 other men1 and the very dogs and pigs  
of old ,england treated me as a man6 ,i 
cannot1 however1 my friends1 dwell upon 
this anti-,prejudice1 or rather the many
 illustrations of the absence of        
,prejudice against ,color in            
,england--but will proceed1 at once1 to 
defend the ,right and ,duty of invoking 
,english aid and ,english sympathy for  
the overthrow of ,american ,slavery1 for
 the education of ,colored ,americans1  
and to forward in every way1 the        
interests of humanity2 inasmuch as the  
right of appealing to ,england for aid  
in overthrowing ,slavery in this        

country1 has been called in question1 in
 public meetings and by the press1 in   
this city4  ,i cannot agree with my     
friend ,mr4 ,garrison in relation to my 
love and attachment to this land4 ,i    
have no love for ,america1 as such2 ,i  
have no patriotism4 ,i have no country4 
,what country have ,i8 ,the             
,institutions of this country do not    
know me--do not recognize me as a man4  
,i am not thought of1 spoken of1 in any 
direction1 out of the ,anti-,slavery    
ranks1 as a man4 ,i am not thought of or
 spoken of1 except as a piece of        
property belonging to some ,christian   
,slaveholder1 and all the ,religious and
 ,political ,institutions of this       
,country alike pronounce me a ,slave and
 a chattel4 ,now1 in such a country as  
this ,i cannot have patriotism4 ,the    
only thing that links me to this land is
 my family1 and the painful             
consciousness that here there are       
#c1jjj1jjj of my fellow creatures       
groaning beneath the iron rod of the    

worst despotism that could be devised   
even in ,pandemonium1--that here are men
 and brethren who are identified with me
 by their complexion1 identified with me
 by their hatred of ,slavery1 identified
 with me by their love and aspirations  
for ,liberty1 identified with me by the 
stripes upon their backs1 their inhuman 
wrongs and cruel sufferings4 ,this1 and 
this only1 attaches me to this land1 and
 brings me here to plead with you1 and  
with this country at large1 for the     
disenthrallment of my oppressed         
countrymen1 and to overthrow this system
 of ,slavery which is crushing them to  
the earth4 ,how can ,i love a country   
that dooms #c1jjj1jjj of my brethren1   
some of them my own kindred1 my own     
brothers1 my own sisters1 who are now   
clanking the chains of ,slavery upon the
 plains of the ,south1 whose warm blood 
is now making fat the soil of ,maryland 
and of ,alabama1 and over whose crushed 
spirits rolls the dark shadow of        
,oppression1 shutting out and           

extinguishing forever the cheering rays 
of that bright ,sun of ,liberty1 lighted
 in the souls of all ,god's children by 
the omnipotent hand of ,deity itself8   
,how can ,i1 ,i say1 love a country thus
 cursed1 thus bedewed with the blood of 
my brethren8 ,a ,country1 the ,church of
 which1 and the ,government of which1   
and the ,constitution of which are in   
favor of supporting and perpetuating    
this monstrous system of injustice and  
blood8 ,i have not1 ,i cannot have1 any 
love for this country1 as such1 or for  
its ,constitution4 ,i desire to see it  
overthrown as speedily as possible and  
its ,constitution shivered in a thousand
 fragments1 rather than this foul curse 
should continue to remain as now4       
,hisses and cheers4  ,in all this1 my   
friends1 let me make myself understood4 
,i do not hate ,america as against      
,england1 or against any other country  
or land4 ,i love ,humanity all over the 
globe4 ,i am anxious to see             
,righteousness prevail in all           

directions4 ,i am anxious to see        
,slavery overthrown here2 but1 ,i never 
appealed to ,englishmen in a manner     
calculated to awaken feelings of hatred 
or disgust1 or to inflame their         
prejudices toward ,america as a nation1 
or in a manner provocative of national  
jealousy or ill-will2 but ,i always     
appealed to their conscience--to the    
higher and nobler feelings of the people
 of that country1 to enlist them in this
 cause4 ,i always appealed to their     
manhood1 that which preceded their being
 ,englishmen1 7to quote an expression of
 my friend ,phillips17 ,i appealed to   
them as men1 and ,i had a right to do   
so4 ,they are men1 and the ,slave is a  
man1 and we have a right to call upon   
all men to assist in breaking his bonds1
 let them be born when and live where   
they may4  ,but it is asked1 ',what good
 will this do8' or ',what good has it   
done8' ',have you not irritated1 have   
you not annoyed your ,american friends  
and the ,american people rather than    

done them good8' ,i admit that we have  
irritated them4 ,they deserve to be     
irritated4 ,i am anxious to irritate the
 ,american people on this question4 ,as 
it is in physics1 so in morals1 there   
are cases which demand irritation and   
counter-irritation4 ,the conscience of  
the ,american public needs this         
irritation1 and ,i would blister it all 
over from centre to circumference1 until
 it gives signs of a purer and a better 
life than it is now manifesting to the  
world4  ,but why expose the sins of one 
nation in the eyes of another8 ,why     
attempt to bring one people under the   
odium of another people8 ,there is much 
force in this question4 ,i admit that   
there are sins in almost every country  
which can be best removed by means      
confined exclusively to their immediate 
locality4 ,but such evils and such sins 
pre-suppose the existence of a moral    
power in their immediate locality       
sufficient to accomplish the work of    
renovation4 ,but1 where1 pray1 can we go

 to find moral power in this nation     
sufficient to overthrow ,slavery8 ,to   
what institution1 to what party shall we
 apply for aid8 ,i say we admit that    
there are evils which can be best       
removed by influences confined to their 
immediate locality4 ,but in regard to   
,american ,slavery it is not so4 ,it is 
such a giant crime1 so darkening to the 
soul1 so blinding in its moral          
influence1 so well calculated to blast  
and corrupt all the humane principles of
 our nature1 so well adapted to infuse  
its own accursed spirit into all around 
it1 that the people among whom it exists
 have not the moral power to abolish it4
 ,shall we go to the ,church for this   
influence8 ,we have heard its character 
described4 ,shall we go to ,politicians 
or ,political ,parties8 ,have they the  
moral power necessary to accomplish this
 mighty task8 ,they have not4 ,what are 
they doing at this moment8 ,voting      
supplies for ,slavery--voting supplies  
for the extension1 the stability1 the   

perpetuation of ,slavery in this land4  
,what is the press doing8 ,the same4    
,the pulpit8 ,almost the same4 ,i do not
 flatter myself that there is moral     
power in the land sufficient to         
overthrow ,slavery1 and ,i welcome the  
aid of ,england4 ,and that aid will     
come4 ,the growing intercourse between  
,england and this country1 by means of  
steam navigation1 the relaxation of the 
protective system in various countries  
in ,europe1 gives us an opportunity to  
bring in the aid1 the moral and         
,christian aid of those living on the   
other side of the ,atlantic4 ,we welcome
 it in the language of the resolution4  
,we entreat our ,british friends to     
continue to send their remonstrances    
across the deep against ,slavery in this
 land4 ,and these remonstrances will    
have a powerful effect here4 ,sir1 the  
,americans may tell of their ability1   
and ,i have no doubt they have it1 to   
keep back the invader's hosts1 to       
repulse the strongest force that its    

enemies may send against this country4  
,it may boast1 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 world4 ,but1 sir1   
there is one thing it cannot resist1    
come from what quarter it may4 ,it      
cannot resist ,,truth4 ,you cannot build
 your forts so strong1 nor your ramparts
 so high1 nor arm yourselves so         
powerfully1 as to be able to withstand  
the overwhelming ,,moral ,,sentiment    
against ,slavery now flowing into this  
land4 ,for example3 ,prejudice against  
,color is continually becoming weaker in
 this land2 and why8 ,because the whole 
,european ,continent denounces this     
sentiment as unworthy a lodgment in the 
breast of an enlightened community4 ,and
 the ,american abroad dares not now1    
even in a public conveyance1 to lift his
 voice in defence of this disgusting    
prejudice4  ,i do not mean to say that  
there are no practices abroad which     

deserve to receive an influence1        
favorable to their extermination1 from  
,america4 ,i am most glad to know that  
,democratic ,freedom--not the bastard   
,democracy which1 while loud in its     
protestations of regard for ,liberty and
 ,equality1 builds up ,slavery1 and1 in 
the name of ,freedom fights the battles 
of ,despotism--is making great strides  
in ,europe4 ,we see1 abroad1 in ,england
 especially1 happy indications of the   
progress of ,american principles4 ,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 land4 ,the community--the    
people of ,england demanded its         
destruction1 and they have triumphed6   
,we have aided them1 and they aid us1   
and the mission of the two nations1     
henceforth1 is to serve each other4     
,sir1 it is said that1 when abroad1 ,i  
misrepresented my country on this       
question4 ,i am not aware of any        

misrepresentation4 ,i stated facts and  
facts only4 ,a gentleman of your own    
,city1 ,rev4 ,dr4 ,cox1 has taken       
particular pains to stigmatize me as    
having introduced the subject of        
,slavery illegitimately into the        
,world's ,temperance ,convention4 ,but  
what was the fact8 ,i went to that      
,convention1 not as a ,delegate--,i went
 into it by the invitation of a         
,committee of the ,convention4 ,i       
suppose most of you know the            
circumstances1 but ,i wish to say one   
word in relation to the spirit and the  
principle which animated me at that     
meeting4 ,i went into it at the         
invitation of the ,committee1 and spoke 
not only at their urgent request1 but by
 public announcement4 ,i stood on the   
platform on the evening referred to1 and
 heard some eight or ten ,americans     
address the #g1jjj people assembled in  
that vast ,hall4 ,i heard them speak of 
the ,temperance movement in the land4 ,i
 heard them eulogize the ,temperance    

,societies in the highest terms1 calling
 on ,england to follow their example    
7and ,england may follow them with      
advantage to herself27 but ,i heard no  
reference made to the #c1jjj1jjj of     
people in this country who are denied   
the privilege1 not only of ,temperance1 
but of all other ,societies4 ,i heard   
not a word of the ,american ,slaves1    
who1 if seven of them were found        
together at a ,temperance meeting or any
 other place1 would be scourged and     
beaten by their cruel tyrants4 ,yes1    
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 seven1 for any purpose1
 however peaceable or laudable4 ,and    
while these ,american gentlemen were    
extending their hands to me1 and saying1
 ',how do you do1 ,mr4 ,douglass8 ,i am 
most happy to meet you here1' c4 c4 ,i  
knew that1 in ,america1 they would not  
have touched me with a pair of tongues4 
,i felt1 therefore1 that that was the   

place and the time to call to           
remembrance the #c1jjj1jjj of ,slaves1  
whom ,i aspired to represent on that    
occasion4 ,i did so1 not maliciously1   
but with a desire1 only1 to subserve the
 best interests of my race4 ,i besought 
the ,american ,delegates who had at     
first responded to my speech with shouts
 of applause1 when they should arrive at
 home1 to extend the borders of their   
,temperance ,societies1 so as to include
 the #ejj1jjj ,colored ,people in the   
,northern ,states of the ,union4 ,i also
 called to mind the facts in relation to
 the mob that occurred in the ,city of  
,philadelphia in the year #ahdb4 ,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 plunged2 how difficult it is   
for him to be virtuous or temperate1 or 
anything but a menial1 an outcast4 ,you 
all remember the circumstances of the   

mob to which ,i have alluded4 ,a number 
of intelligent1 philanthropic1 manly    
colored men1 desirous of snatching their
 colored brethren from the fangs of     
intemperance1 formed themselves into a  
procession and walked through the       
streets of ,philadelphia with           
appropriate banners1 and badges1 and    
mottoes4 ,i stated the fact that that   
procession was not allowed to proceed   
far1 in the ,city of ,philadelphia--the 
,american ,city of ,brotherly ,love1 the
 city of all others loudest in its      
boasts of freedom and liberty--before   
these noble-minded men were assaulted by
 the citizens1 their banners torn in    
shreds and themselves trampled in the   
dust1 and inhumanly beaten1 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 citizens4 
,and all this was done for no other     
reason than that they had presumed to   
walk through the streets with           

,temperance banners and badges1 like    
human beings4  ,the statement of this   
fact caused the whole ,convention to    
break forth in one general expression of
 intense disgust at such atrocious and  
inhuman conduct4 ,this disturbed the    
composure of some of our ,american      
representatives1 who1 in serious alarm1 
caught hold of the skirts of my coat1   
and attempted to make me desist from my 
exposition of the situation of the      
colored race in this country4 ,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 off1 so vehement was he in his     
friendly attempts to induce me to yield 
the floor4 ,but fortunately the audience
 came to my rescue1 and demanded that ,i
 should go on1 and ,i did go on1 and1 ,i
 trust1 discharged my duty to my        
brethren in bonds and the cause of      
,human ,liberty1 in a manner not        
altogether unworthy the occasion4  ,i   
have been accused of dragging the       

question of ,slavery into the           
,convention4 ,i had a right to do so4   
,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 ,convention1 not a black man's  
nor a white man's ,convention1 but the  
,world's ,convention1 the convention of 
,,all1 black as well as white1 bond as  
well as free4 ,and ,i stood there1 as ,i
 thought1 a representative of #c1jjj1jjj
 of men whom ,i had left in rags and    
wretchedness to be devoured by the      
accursed ,institution which stands by   
them1 as with a drawn sword1 ever ready 
to fall upon their devoted and          
defenceless heads4 ,i felt1 as ,i said  
to ,dr4 ,cox1 that it was demanded of me
 by ,conscience1 to speak out boldly in 
behalf of those whom ,i had left behind4
 ,cheers4 ,and1 sir1 7,i think ,i may   
say this1 without subjecting myself to  
the charge of egotism7 ,i deem it very  
fortunate for the friends of the ,slave1

 that ,mr4 ,garrison and myself were    
there just at that time4 ,sir1 the      
,churches in this country have long     
repined at the position of the ,churches
 in ,england on the subject of ,slavery4
 ,they have sought many opportunities to
 do away the prejudices of the ,english 
,churches against ,american ,slavery4   
,why1 sir1 at this time there were not  
far from ,seventy ,ministers of the     
,gospel from ,christian ,america1 in    
,england1 pouring their leprous         
pro-slavery distilment into the ears of 
the people of that country1 and by their
 prayers1 their conversation and their  
public speeches1 seeking to darken the  
,british mind on the subject of         
,slavery1 and to create in the ,english 
public the same cruel and heartless     
apathy that prevails in this country in 
relation to the ,slave1 his wrongs and  
his rights4 ,i knew them by their       
continuous slandering of my race1 and at
 this time1 and under these             
circumstances1 ,i deemed it a happy     

interposition of ,god1 in behalf of my  
oppressed1 and misrepresented1 and      
slandered people1 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  
them1 and stand before the ,british     
public to open to them the secrets of   
the prison-house of bondage in ,america4
 ,cheers4 ,sir1 the ,slave sends no     
,delegates to the ,evangelical          
,alliance4 ,cheers4 ,the ,slave sends no
 ,delegates to the ,world's ,temperance 
,convention4 ,why8 ,because chains are  
upon his arms1 and fetters fast bind his
 limbs4 ,he must be driven out to be    
sold at auction by some ,christian      
,slaveholder1 and the money for which   
his soul is bartered must be            
appropriated to spread the ,gospel among
 the ,heathen4  ,sir1 ,i feel it is good
 to be here4 ,there is always work to be
 done4 ,slavery is everywhere4 ,slavery 
goes out in the ,cambria and comes back 

in the ,cambria4 ,slavery was in the    
,evangelical ,alliance1 looking saintly 
in the person of ,rev4 ,doctor ,smythe2 
it was in the ,world's ,temperance      
,convention1 in the person of ,rev4 ,mr4
 ,kirk4 ,dr4 ,marsh went about saying1  
in so many words1 that the unfortunate  
,slaveholders in ,america were so       
peculiarly situated1 so environed by    
uncontrollable circumstances that they  
could not liberate their slaves2 that if
 they were to emancipate them they would
 be1 in many instances1 cast into       
prison4 ,sir1 it did me good to go      
around on the heels of this gentleman4  
,i was glad to follow him around for the
 sake of my country1 for the country is 
not1 after all1 so bad as ,rev4 ,dr4    
,marsh represented it to be4 ,my fellow 
countrymen1 what think ye he said of    
you1 on the other side of the ,atlantic8
 ,he said you were not only             
pro-,slavery1 but that you actually     
aided the ,slaveholder in holding his   
,slaves securely in his grasp2 that1 in 

fact1 you compelled him to be a         
,slaveholder4 ,this ,i deny4 ,you are   
not so bad as that4 ,you do not compel  
the ,slaveholder to be a ,slaveholder4  
,and ,rev4 ,doctor ,cox1 too1 talked a  
great deal over there1 and among other  
things1 he said that 'many              
,slave-holders--dear ,christian         
men6--were sincerely anxious to get rid 
of their slaves2' and to show how       
difficult it is for them to get rid of  
their human chattels1 he put the        
following case3 ,a man living in a      
,state1 the laws of which compel all    
persons emancipating their slaves to    
remove them beyond its limits1 wishes to
 liberate his slaves2 but he is too poor
 to transport them beyond the confines  
of the ,state in which he resides2      
therefore he cannot emancipate them--he 
is necessarily a slaveholder4 ,but1 sir1
 there was one fact1 which ,i happened1 
fortunately1 to have on hand just at    
that time1 which completely neutralized 
this very affecting statement of the    

,doctor's4 ,it so happens that ,messrs4 
,gerrit ,smith and ,arthur ,tappan have 
advertised for the especial benefit of  
this afflicted class of ,slaveholders1  
that they have set apart the sum of     
#aj1jjj1 to be appropriated in aiding   
them to remove their emancipated ,slaves
 beyond the jurisdiction of the ,state1 
and that the money would be forthcoming 
on application being made for it2 but no
 such application was ever made4 ,this  
shows that however truthful the         
statements of these gentlemen may be    
concerning the things of the world to   
come1 they are lamentably reckless in   
their statements concerning things      
appertaining to this world4 ,i do not   
mean to say that they would designedly  
tell that which is false2 but they did  
make the statements which ,i have       
ascribed to them4  ,and ,doct4 ,cox and 
others charge me with having stirred up 
warlike feeling while abroad4 ,this     
charge1 also1 ,i deny4 ,the whole of my 
arguments and the whole of my appeals1  

while ,i was abroad1 were in favor of   
any thing else than war4 ,i embraced    
every opportunity to propagate the      
principles of ,peace while ,i was in    
,great ,britain4 ,i confess1 honestly1  
that were ,i not a ,peace man1 were ,i a
 believer in fighting at all1 ,i should 
have gone through ,england1 saying to   
,englishmen1 as ,englishmen1 ',there are
 #c1jjj1jjj of men across the ,atlantic 
who are whipped1 scourged1 robbed of    
themselves1 denied every privilege1     
denied the right to read the ,word of   
the ,god who made them1 trampled under  
foot1 denied all the rights of human    
beings2 go to their rescue2 shoulder    
your muskets1 buckle on your knapsacks1 
and in the invincible cause of ,human   
,rights and ,universal ,liberty1 go     
forth1 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        

birthright4' ,this would have been my   
course had ,i been a war man4 ,that such
 was not my course1 ,i appeal to my     
whole career while abroad to determine4 
,weapons of war we have cast from the   
battle3     ,,truth is our armor--our   
watchword is ,,love2   ,hushed be the   
sword1 and the musketry's rattle1       
,all our equipments are drawn from      
above4           ,praise then the ,god  
of ,truth1           ,hoary age and     
ruddy youth4           ,long may our    
rally be           ,love1 ,light and    
,liberty2     ,ever our banner the      
banner of ,peace4  ,mr4 ,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 join4              
,transcriber's ,note3 ,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 corners4 ,because no 
other copies of this exact pamphlet are 

available1 the obscured text has been   
supplied from the same edition of the   
,new ,york 7,daily7 ,tribune which is   
referred to as the source in the        
pamphlet's introductory paragraph3      
,country1 ,conscience1 and the          
,anti-,slavery ,cause3 ,an ,address     
,delivered in ,new ,york1 ,new ,york1   
,may #aa1 #ahdg4 ,new ,york ,daily      
,tribune1 #ac ,may #ahdg4