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. 273 lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. * * " How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished! " The sorrow, the deep, the almost inexpressible sorrow, which this man felt for his dead friend, do we feel for this great man, who has now passed beyond our ken, " into the silent land, into the land of the great departed." Our purpose this morning, however, is not to use this occasion to pour out our lamentations, but rather to look back over that remarkable career, covering a period of nearly eight decades, with the view of forming some estimate of the man, of the debt we owe him, and of getting from his life courage and inspiration for the future. I. AS TO THE MAN. By nature he was cast in a great mold,— physically, intellectually, and morally. Physically, what a splendid specimen of a man he was,—tall, erect, massive, and yet moving with the grace and agility of an Apollo. How Phidias or 18
Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Monographs Collection 274 LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Michael Angelo would have delighted to carve in marble or to cast in bronze that, noble form and figure. It was always a pleasure to me just to look at him. His presence affected me like some of the passages of rugged grandeur in Milton, of as the sight of Mont Blanc, rising from the vale of Chamouni, affected Coleridge, when for the first time he looked upon that magnificent scene. I think all who came in contact with him felt the spell of his splendid presence. The older he grew, the whiter his locks became, the more striking was his appearance, and more and more did he attract attention wherever he appeared, whether in our streets or in our public assemblies. I was never more impressed with this fact than at the great Columbian Exposition in Chicago. One morning I had the pleasure of going with him to the art gallery. There were several things that he wanted to show me, he said. The first thing we stopped before was a piece of statuary—" Lincoln Dying." We had been standing but a few moments before a great crowd gathered about us. I was absorbed in what he was saying and did not at first notice it, but he took in the situation at once,—it was an old story to him,—and said, " Well, they have come, let us pass on." And wherever he went in the building the same thing was repeated. It seemed to me as if nearly everybody knew him ;
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