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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 10: the Rynders Mob.—1850. (search)
posed assemblage of traitors. As for one of the heralded orators for this Anniversary, the black Douglass, who, at the Syracuse Convention in January, Ante. p. 281. had invoked immediate disunion, and alleged that Washington, Jefferson, and Patrick Henry were strangers to any just idea of Liberty—This was uttered, says a contemporary, and no hand was raised to fell the speaker to the earth! But, added the Globe, if this Douglass shall re-proclaim his Syracuse treason here, and any man shallhe found it was somebody else's. Nat. A. S. Standard, 10.199. Now you can speak, said he to Douglass; Nat. A. S. Standard, 10.202; N. Y. Herald, May 8, 1850. but mind what I say: if you speak disrespectfully [of the South, or Washington, or Patrick Henry] Ill knock you off the stage. Nothing daunted, the ex-fugitive from greater terrors began: The gentleman who has just spoken has undertaken to prove that the blacks are not human beings. He has examined our whole conformation, from top