PRICE SIX CENTS.
ABOLITION
FANATICISM
IN NEW YORK.
SPEECH
OF A
RUNAWAY SLAVE FROM BALTIMORE,
AT AN
ABOLITION MEETING IN NEW YORK,
HELD MAY 11, 1847.
1847.
FOR SALE AT ALL THE PERIODICAL AGENCIES.
FLAMING
ABOLITION SPEECH
DELIVERED BY THE RUNAWAY SLAVE,
FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
At the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society,
IN THE TABERNACLE, NEW YORK, MAY 11, 1847.
The following Report will show to Marylanders, how a runaway slavetalks, when he reaches the Abolition regions of the country. Thispresumptive negro was even present at the London World's TemperanceConvention, last year; and in spite of all the efforts of the AmericanDelegates to prevent it, he palmed off his Abolition bombast upon anaudience of 7000 persons! Of this high-handed measure he now makes hisboast in New-York, one of the hot-beds of Abolitionism. The Report isgiven exactly as published in the New-York Tribune. The reader willmake his own comments.
Mr. Douglass was introduced to the audience by Wm. LloydGarrison, Esq., President of the American Anti-Slavery Society,and, upon taking the platform, was greeted with enthusiastic andlong-continued applause by the vast concourse which filled the spaciousTabernacle to overflowing. As soon as the audience became silent, Mr. D.with, at first, a slight degree of embarrassment, addressed them asfollows:
"I am very glad to be here. I am very glad to be present at thisAnniversary—glad again to mingle my voice with those with whom I havestood identified, with those with whom I have labored, for the lastseven years, for the purpose of undoing the burdens of my brethren,and hastening the day of their emancipation.
I do not doubt but that a large portion of this audience will bedisappointed, both by the manner and the matter of what I shallthis day set forth. The extraordinary and unmerited eulogies which havebeen showered upon me, here and elsewhere, have done much to createexpectations which, I am well aware, I can never hope to gratify. I amhere, a simple man, knowing what I have experienced in Slavery, knowingit to be a bad system, and desiring, by all Christian means, to seek itsoverthrow. I am not here to please you with an eloquent speech, with arefined and logical address, but to speak to you the sober truths of aheart overborne with gratitude to God that we have in this land, cursedas it is with Slavery, so noble a band to second my efforts and theefforts of others in the noble work of undoing the Yoke of Bondage, withwhich the majority of the States of this Union are now unfortunatelycursed.
Since the last time I had the pleasure of mingling my voice with thevoices of my friends on this platform, many interesting and even tryingevents have occurred to me. I have experienced, within the last eighteenor twenty months, many incidents, all of which it would be interestingto communicate to you; b