The greatest and best of British statesmen admitted its justice, and the loftiest eloquence of the British Senate came to its support. Part I . They may also rise in wrath and fury, and bear away, on their angry waves, the accumulated wealth of years of toil and hardship. Resources and Services To this end, the theme of this year's "The Civic Discourse Project" will address Educational Outreach and Student Services be warned! He donned a red shirt and sailor’s hat and loosely knotted a black cravat around his neck. The Sharps, the Clarksons, the Wilberforces, the Buxtons, and Burchells and the Knibbs, were alike famous for their piety, and for their philanthropy. The testimony of Senator Breese, Lewis Cass, and many others that might be named, who are everywhere esteemed as sound lawyers, so regard the constitution. That trade has long since been denounced by this government, as piracy. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and body-guards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina. This truth is not a doubtful one. But, I submit, where all is plain there is nothing to be argued. As a de facto bribe, judges were paid more ($10) for a decision that forced a suspected slave back into slavery than for a decision finding the slave to be free ($5). The eyes of the conductor were drawn to the authoritative eagle emblazoned on the top rather than to the erroneous physical description. -Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Mark the sad procession, as it moves wearily along, and the inhuman wretch who drives them. The charter of our liberties, which every citizen has a personal interest in understanding thoroughly. They acknowledge it when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave. But I differ from those who charge this baseness on the framers of the Constitution of the United States. YOUR HANDS ARE FULL OF BLOOD; cease to do evil, learn to do well; seek judgment; relieve the oppressed; judge for the fatherless; plead for the widow.”The madness of this course, we believe, is admitted now, even by England; but we fear the lesson is wholly lost on our present ruler.One is struck with the difference between the attitude of the American church towards the anti-slavery movement, and that occupied by the churches in England towards a similar movement in that country. Let this damning fact be perpetually told. weeping, as she thinks of the mother from whom she has been torn! be warned! But, while the river may not be turned aside, it may dry up, and leave nothing behind but the withered branch, and the unsightly rock, to howl in the abyss-sweeping wind, the sad tale of departed glory. Your fathers were wise men, and if they did not go mad, they became restive under this treatment. You shed tears over fallen Hungary, and make the sad story of her wrongs the theme of your poets, statesmen and orators, till your gallant sons are ready to fly to arms to vindicate her cause against her oppressors; but, in regard to the ten thousand wrongs of the American slave, you would enforce the strictest silence, and would hail him as an enemy of the nation who dares to make those wrongs the subject of public discourse! Follow the drove to New Orleans. There was, at that time, a grand slave mart kept at the head of Pratt Street, by Austin Woldfolk. In order to put an end to it, some of these last have consented that their colored brethren (nominally free) should leave this country, and establish themselves on the western coast of Africa! If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. Need I tell you that the Jews are not the only people who built the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous? On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.Fellow-citizens, this murderous traffic is, to-day, in active operation in this boasted republic. The causes which led to the separation of the colonies from the British crown have never lacked for a tongue. From the slave prison to the ship, they are usually driven in the darkness of night; for since the antislavery agitation, a certain caution is observed.From the round top of your ship of state, dark and threatening clouds may be seen. They have all been taught in your common schools, narrated at your firesides, unfolded from your pulpits, and thundered from your legislative halls, and are as familiar to you as household words. The power is co-extensive with the Star-Spangled Banner and American Christianity. The trip required the fugitive slave to cross the Susquehanna River by ferry, and on board was an old acquaintance who began to ask probing questions about his journey before Douglass could break away. Federal marshals and professional bounty hunters known as “slave catchers” pursued fugitives as far as the Canadian border.After escaping from slavery, Douglass soon came to the forefront of the abolitionist movement as a gifted orator and a powerful narrator of his experiences as a slave. You glory in your refinement and your universal education yet you maintain a system as barbarous and dreadful as ever stained the character of a nation — a system begun in avarice, supported in pride, and perpetuated in cruelty. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. Although on free soil, Douglass was not legally a free man. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were “final;” not slavery and oppression. You declare, before the world, and are understood by the world to declare, that you “hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that, among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;” and yet, you hold securely, in a bondage which, according to your own Thomas Jefferson, “is worse than ages of that which your fathers rose in rebellion to oppose,” a seventh part of the inhabitants of your country.This, for the purpose of this celebration, is the 4th of July.

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