Frederick Douglass, the Orator - Monroe County Library System

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Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. 245 Call this man irreligious, an infidel ? This man, whose foundations of truth and righteousness were established in God ! This man, with whom one with the form of the Son of man had so often walked in a hotter than a Nebuchadnezzar furnace. This man, with the spirit of God's kingdom, as the angels sang it, deep within him! Nay, call him father, brother, husband, friend! Have we forgotten the words of our Great Liberator in the synagogue of Nazareth, " The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because He hath sent me to preach deliverance to the captive " ? Have we forgotten the epithets that were thick in the air about our Master: " Beelzebub! He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils "? Gentle with a womanly gentleness, wise with a wisdom beyond that of the universities, patient, long-suffering, and kind, always ready to forgive, always ready with the word of cheer; this is the man we mourn ! Lips from which have fallen such golden eloquence, eyes from which have flashed such radiance, heart with such great throbs of sympathy for all God's downtrodden ones, hands which were always open and outstretched toward the wretched; these were his, these belonged to that man whom we called Frederick Douglass. Through the change of the greatest and most eventful period in American history, not once
Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection 246 LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. did he lose his footing; not once did he forfeit the companionship of our greatest; ay, not once did he lose his hold upon God. Here is thy greatest son, my Maryland. Rise up to greet him as he passes through. Seventyseven years ago thou gavest him the birth of the bondman, but thou hast lost him. The nation has claimed him—the wide world. Thou great Virginia planter, sleeping by the Potomac, let the river bear thee these tidings: " What thou didst with thy bondmen, we have done with ours." The tread of the soldier is around thy slumber no more. And thou martyr-soul, beneath God's throne, to whom was given to speak the fiat of freedom to millions of men, women, and children whose lot was like this man's, who were thus " cabined, cribbed and confined" though God's image was in them, take this martyr-spirit to thy celestial companionship. And thou great Empire State, who gavest to this man a home, where he could earn his bread and rear his children, at a time when he had not where to lay his head, and by the broad flow of whose great river sleeps the dust of freedom's greatest captain, take to thy central heart and bear on thy bosom, as the ages sweep more and more into the sunlight of the man Christ Jesus, the battlescarred form of Frederick Douglass. Sleep, freedom's herald in the land of the freeborn.
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