Frederick Douglass, the Orator - Monroe County Library System

Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection
LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. 231
by his death, his true merits and character will be
emulated. The hearts of the people will be
cemented in closer bonds of sympathy for that,
and for those for whom he so ably labored.
Douglass, the success, the student, worker,
philanthropist, patriot, and leader, was given us
by God, and the Lord has taken him.
" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they
may rest from their labors; for their works follow
with them."
On his return from the National Council of
Women last Wednesday, February 20, the
chariot of God met Mr. Douglass in the hallway
of his home, when, without a struggle, while in
the presence and in conversation with his beloved
wife, the two alone, the spirit passed into the
better land, in the seventy-eighth year of his age^
He leaves a wife, two sons, a daughter, and
grandchildren to mourn his loss. He leaves a
race in grief, the world of mankind in respect
and regret, but heaven and earth will unite in
saying, " Well done, thou good and faithful servant;
enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."
Father, brother, leader, farewell! Dear family,
wife, sons, daughter, grandchildren and relations,
we commend you to the God of all grace in this,
your deep affliction. Be you assured that you
will never cease to have the deepest sympathy