John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison

[216] sought to break by exclaiming: “You are not a black man; you are only half a nigger.” “Then,” replied Mr. Douglass, turning upon him with the blandest of smiles and an almost affectionate obeisance, “I am half-brother to Captain Rynders!” He would not deny that he was the son of a slaveholder, born of Southern “amalgamation” ; a fugitive, too, like Kossuth--“another half-brother of mine” (to Rynders). He spoke of the difficulties thrown in the way of industrious colored people at the North, as he had himself experiencedthis by way of answer to Horace Greeley, who had recently complained of their inefficiency and dependence. Criticism of the editor of the Tribune being grateful to Rynders, a political adversary, “he added a word to Douglass's against Greeley. ‘I am happy,’ said Douglass, ‘to have the assent of my half-brother here,’ pointing to Rynders, and convulsing the audience with laughter. After this, Rynders, finding how he was played with, took care to hold his peace; but someone of Rynders' company in the gallery undertook to interrupt the speaker. ‘It's of no use,’ said Mr. Douglass, ‘I've Captain Rynders here to back me.’ ” “We were born here,” he said