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who stand as the very lights of the church, have shamelessly given the sanction of religion and the Bible to the whole slave system. On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light? There are illustrations of it near and remote, ancient and modern. See this drove sold and separated forever; and never forget the deep, sad sobs that arose from that scattered multitude. It is a religion for oppressors, tyrants, man-stealers, andthugs. As the sheet anchor takes a firmer hold, when the ship is tossed by the storm, so did the cause of your fathers grow stronger, as it breasted the chilling blasts of kingly displeasure. They acknowledge it when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave. It is fashionable to do so; but there was a time when to pronounce against England, and in favor of the cause of the colonies, tried mens souls. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Her speed had faltered under the weight of her child and her chains! I am not included within the pales of this glorious anniversary. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery the great sin and shame of America! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. Nations do not now stand in the same relation to each other that they did ages ago. Racist Ex-University Of Kentucky 'Karen' Sophia Rosing Is Charged For Assaulting Black Student. I answer: a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. Frederick Douglass's, What To the Slave Is the Fourth of Web"The Lessons of the Hour" Speech by Frederick Douglass, January 9, 1894 Friends and Fellow Citizens : No man should come before an audience like the one by whose presence I am now honored, without a noble object and a fixed and earnest purpose. The papers and placards say, that I am to deliver a 4th [of] July oration. Morel is right that the 1876 speech by Frederick Douglass is remarkable and masterful. The time for such argument is past. WebIn this speech, Frederick Douglass reflected on how the outpouring of joy at the conclusion of the Civil War turned to mourning with Lincolns assassination. Build with the best speech-to-text APIs around. It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or to write. Let the religious press, the pulpit, the Sunday school, the conference meeting, the great ecclesiastical, missionary, Bible and tract associations of the land array their immense powers against slavery and slave-holding; and the whole system of crime and blood would be scattered to the winds; and that they do not do this involves them in the most awful responsibility of which the mind can conceive. But, your fathers, who had not adopted the fashionable idea of this day, of the infallibility of government, and the absolute character of its acts, presumed to differ from the home government in respect to the wisdom and the justice of some of those burdens and restraints.