Frederick Douglass, the Orator - Monroe County Library System

Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection
222 LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
Meriwether, Dr. John R. Francis, F G. Barbadoes,
D. L. Pitcher, B. E. Messer, Hon. George
W- Murray and Dr. Robert Reyburn; the
Trustees and Faculty of Howard University;
delegation from the Women's Council. Among
the distinguished persons in the procession were
Senators John Sherman, George F- Hoar, Justice
John M. Harlan of the United States Supreme
Court, and Professor W S. Scarborough of Wilberforce
University.
In the pulpit sat the speakers and a number of
persons specially invited.
On the front row of seats sat the twelve bodybearers
taken from the ranks of the colored
letter carriers of Washington, in full uniform:
John H. George, Richard B. Peters, John W-
Curry, W H. Marshall, W H. Cowan, H. W
Hewlejtt, Mercer S. Alexander, John D. Butler,
Raymond Russell, and Dorsey Seville.
In the altar sat many pastors of city churches.
There were present delegations from New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Annapolis
and other cities.
After the reserved seats in the body of the
church, to the number of five hundred, had been
filled the doors were opened to the public.
Within a very few minutes every seat in the vast
auditorium was occupied, a very small part of
the great multitude outside gaining admission.