John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison

[217] finally, “we are not dying out, and we mean to stay here. We made the clothes you have on, the sugar you put into your tea. We would do more if allowed.” “Yes,” said a voice in the crowd, “you would cut our throats for us.” “No,” was the quick response, “but we would cut your hair for you.”

Douglass concluded his triumphant remarks by calling upon the Rev. Samuel R. Ward, editor of the Impartial Citizen, to succeed him. “All eyes,” says Dr. Furness, “were instantly turned to the back of the platform, or stage rather, so dramatic was the scene; and there, amidst a group, stood a large man, so black that, as Wendell Phillips said, when he shut his eyes you could not see him. As he approached, Rynders exclaimed: ‘Well, this is the original nigger.’ ‘ I've heard of the magnanimity of Captain Rynders,’ said Ward, ‘but the half has not been told me!’ And then he went on with a noble voice and his speech was such a strain of eloquence as I never heard excelled before or since.” The mob had to applaud him, too, and it is the highest praise to record that his unpremeditated utterance maintained the level of Douglass's, and ended the meeting with a sense