It is to save the people of the South from themselves, and the nation from detriment on their account. Douglass, Frederick. An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage :: :: University of The South will comply with any conditions but suffrage for the negro. 'Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows 2010:08:10 15:03:38 & | &( . What OConnell said of the history of Ireland may with greater truth be said of the negros. He is a man, and by every fact and argument by which any man can sustain his right to vote, the negro can sustain his right equally. Find the collection. Is not Austria wise in removing all ground of complaint against her on the part of Hungary? You shudder to-day at the harvest of blood sown in the spring-time of the Republic by your patriot fathers. Anaphora. Masses of men can take care of themselves. JFIF H H Exif MM * b j( 1 r2 i <> stream He is a man, and by every fact and argument by which any man can sustain his right to vote, the negro can sustain his right equally. King Cotton is deposed, but only deposed, and is ready to-day to reassert all his ancient pretensions upon the first favorable opportunity. Does any sane man doubt for a moment that the men who followed Jefferson Davis through the late terrible Rebellion, often marching barefooted and hungry, naked and penniless, and who now only profess an enforced loyalty, would plunge this country into a foreign war to-day, if they could thereby gain their coveted independence, and their still more coveted mastery over the negroes? We want no longer any heavy- footed, melancholy service from the negro. In a word, it must enfranchise the negro, and by means of the loyal negroes and the loyal white men of the South build till a national party there, and in time bridge the chasm between North and South, so that our country may have a common liberty and a common civilization. Once firmly seated in Congress, their alliance with Northern Democrats re-established, their States restored to their former position inside the Union, they can easily find means of keeping the Federal government entirely too busy with other important matters to pay much attention to the local affairs of the Southern States. None of the choices The lamb may not be trusted with the wolf. Frederick Douglass's Vision for a Reborn America - The Atlantic Massachusetts and South Carolina may draw tears from the eyes of our tender-hearted President by walking arm in arm into his Philadelphia Convention, but a citizen of Massachusetts is still an alien in the Palmetto State. Something then, not by way of argument, (for that has been done by Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, Wendell Phillips, Gerrit Smith, and other able men,) but rather of statement and appeal. What is common to all works no special sense of degradation to any. By the 1890s Douglass, aging and in ill health but still out on the lecture circuit . It early mastered the Constitution, became superior to the Union, and enthroned itself above the law. Besides, the disabilities imposed upon all are necessarily without that bitter and stinging element of invidiousness which attaches to disfranchisement in a republic. There is but one safe and constitutional way to banish that mischievous hope from the South, and that is by lifting the laborer beyond the unfriendly political designs of his former master. Go here for more about FrederickDouglass' Appeal toCongress for ImpartialSuffrage. Is the existence of a rebellious element in our borders--which New Orleans, Memphis, and Texas show to be only disarmed, but at heart as malignant as ever, only waiting for an opportunity to reassert itself with fire and sword--a reason for leaving four millions of the nation's truest friends with just cause of complaint against the Federal government? The principle of slavery, which they tolerated under the erroneous impression that it would soon die out, became at last the dominant principle and power at the South. It comes now in shape of a denial of political rights to four million loyal colored people. The young men of the South burn with the desire to regain what they call the lost cause; the women are noisily malignant towards the Federal government. Read the next essay; It is enough that the possession and exercise of the elective franchise is in itself an appeal to the nobler elements of manhood, and imposes education as essential to the safety of society. Strong as we are, we need the energy that slumbers in the black mans arm to make us stronger. Q. Under the potent shield of State Rights, the game would be in their own hands. Casting aside all thought of justice and magnanimity, is it wise to impose upon the negro all the burdens involved in sustaining government against foes within and foes without, to make him equal sharer in all sacrifices for the public good, to tax him in peace and conscript him in war, and then coldly exclude him from the ballot-box? What, then, is the work before Congress? While nothing may be urged here as to the past services of the negro, it is quite within the line of this appeal to remind the nation of the possibility that a time may come when the services of the negro may be a second time required. The answers to these questions are too obvious to require statement. Something, too, might be said of national gratitude. Oak Ridge High School 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike Oak Ridge, TN 37830. From "Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage" How does Douglass support his claim that African Americans have rendered a "score of past services" to the United States? Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as It must cease to recognize the old slave-masters as the only competent persons to rule the South. What does the following sentence from the essay An Appeal to Can that be sound statesmanship which leaves millions of men in gloomy discontent, and possibly in a state of alienation in the day of national trouble? It will tell how these poor people, whose rights we still despised, behaved to our wounded soldiers, when found cold, hungry, and bleeding on the deserted battlefield; how they assisted our escaping prisoners from Andersonville, Belle Isle, Castle Thunder, and elsewhere, sharing with them their wretched crusts, and otherwise affording them aid and comfort; how they promptly responded to the trumpet call for their services, fighting against a foe that denied them the rights of civilized warfare, and for a government which was without the courage to assert those rights and avenge their violation in their behalf; with what gallantry they flung themselves upon Rebel fortifications, meeting death as fearlessly as any other troops in the service. It is nothing against this reasoning that all men who vote are not good men or good citizens. Question 4 60 seconds Q. Carrie Chapman uses the words of which historical men to persuade to congress to allow women to vote? The American people can, perhaps, afford to brave the censure of surrounding nations for the manifest injustice and meanness of excluding its faithful black soldiers from the ballot-box, but it cannot afford to allow the moral and mental energies of rapidly increasing millions to be consigned to hopeless degradation. And does not the Emperor of Russia act wisely, as well as generously, when he not only breaks up the bondage of the serf, but extends him all the advantages of Russian citizenship? Give the negro the elective franchise, and you give him at once a powerful motive for all noble exertion, and make him a man among men. It may be traced like a wounded man through a crowd, by the blood. Yet the negroes have marvellously survived all the exterminating forces of slavery, and have emerged at the end of two hundred and fifty years of bondage, not morose, misanthropic, and revengeful, but cheerful, hopeful, and forgiving. Waiving humanity, national honor, the claims of gratitude, the precious satisfaction arising from deeds of charity and justice to the weak and defenceless,--the appeal for impartial suffrage addresses itself with great pertinency to the darkest, coldest, and flintiest side of the human heart, and would wring righteousness from the unfeeling calculations of human selfishness. Is Ireland, in her present condition, fretful, discontented, compelled to support an establishment in which she does not believe, and which the vast majority of her people abhor, a source of power or of weakness to Great Britain? Frederick Douglass: An Appeal To Congress For Impartial Suffrage 753 Words | 4 Pages. They now stand before Congress and the country, not complaining of the past, but simply asking for a better future. Douglass, Joseph H. (Joseph Henry), 1871-1935, - They are able, vigilant, devoted. As you members of the Thirty-ninth Congress decide, will the country be peaceful, united, and happy, or troubled, divided, and miserable. The soil is in readiness, and the seed-time has come. So Just, Speeches on Social Justice, available at: http://www.sojust.net/speeches/frederickdouglas_appeal.html. It is true that they came to the relief of the country at the hour of its extremest need. Though the battle is for the present lost, the hope of gaining this object still exists, and pervades the whole South with a feverish excitement. Under the potent shield of State Rights, the game would be in their own hands. In 1867 Frederick Douglass, noted abolitionist and civil rights leader, weighed in on one of the most contentious issues of the day, suffrage for black men following the Civil War. It will tell how these poor people, whose rights we still despised, behaved to our wounded soldiers, when found cold, hungry, and bleeding on the deserted battle-field; how they assisted our escaping prisoners from Andersonville, Belle Isle, Castle Thunder, and elsewhere, sharing with them their wretched crusts, and otherwise affording them aid and comfort; how they promptly responded to the trumpet call for their services, fighting against a foe that denied them the rights of civilized warfare, and for a government which was without the courage to assert those rights and avenge their violation in their behalf; with what gallantry they flung themselves upon Rebel fortifications, meeting death as fearlessly as any other troops in the service. Request Permissions. The last and shrewdest turn of Southern politics is a recognition of the necessity of getting into Congress immediately, and at any price. %PDF-1.4 Foreign countries abound with his agents. The South will comply with any conditions but suffrage for the negro. Can that be sound statesmanship which leaves millions of men in gloomy discontent, and possibly in a state of alienation in the day of national trouble? These facts speak to the better dispositions of the human heart; but they seem of little weight with the opponents of impartial suffrage. In fact, all the elements of treason and rebellion are there under the thinnest disguise which necessity can impose. The South does not now ask for slavery. 1881. In a pair of Atlantic articles in 1866 and '67, Douglass addressed members of the 39th session of Congress, urging them to give black Americans the right to vote. We have crushed the Rebellion, but not its hopes or its malign purposes. 30 seconds. 865-425-9601. Language Development: Convention and Style-from "Appeal to Congress for They are too numerous and useful to be colonized, and too enduring and self-perpetuating to disappear by natural causes. Freedom of speech and of the press it slowly but successfully banished from the South, dictated its own code of honor and manners to the nation, brandished the bludgeon and the bowie-knife over Congressional debate, sapped the foundations of loyalty, dried up the springs of patriotism, blotted out the testimonies of the fathers against oppression, padlocked the pulpit, expelled liberty from its literature, invented nonsensical theories about master-races and slave-races of men, and in due season produced a Rebellion fierce, foul, and bloody. But in a country like ours, where men of all nations, kindred, and tongues are freely enfranchised, and allowed to vote, to say to the negro, You shall not vote, is to deal his manhood a staggering blow, and to burn into his soul a bitter and goading sense of wrong, or else work in him a stupid indifference to all the elements of a manly character. _E/sZ@)m"\ kAk> ,?/. The destiny of unborn and unnumbered generations is in your hands. Their history is parallel to that of the country; but while the history of the latter has been cheerful and bright with blessings, theirs has been heavy and dark with agonies and curses. The spectacle of these dusky millions thus imploring, not demanding, is touching; and if American statesmen could be moved by a simple appeal to the nobler elements of human nature, if they had not fallen, seemingly, into the incurable habit of weighing and measuring every proposition of reform by some standard of profit and loss, doing wrong from choice, and right only from necessity or some urgent demand of human selfishness, it would be enough to plead for the negroes on the score of past services and sufferings. To appreciate the full force of this argument, it must be observed, that disfranchisement in a republican government based upon the idea of human equality and universal suffrage, is a very different thing from disfranchisement in governments based upon the idea of the divine right of kings, or the entire subjugation of the masses. Which of the following sentences from the essay "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage" by Frederick Douglas indicates a claim by the writer? Frederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1846-1894; Speeches, Articles, and Other Writings Attributed to Union and liberty : powers of Congress in relation to the slaves, with a form of Celebration of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia by the colored people, in Frederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1846-1894; Speeches, Articles, and Other Writings Attributed to Frederick or Helen Pitts Douglass, 1881-1887; "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage," 1881, - There is something immeasurably mean, to say nothing of the cruelty, in placing the loyal negroes of the South under the political power of their Rebel masters. For in respect to this grand measure it is the good fortune of the negro that enlightened selfishness, not less than justice, fights on his side. These sable millions are too powerful to be allowed to remain either indifferent or discontented. Assing, Ottilie--Correspondence, - Address to Congress on Women's Suffrage - Quizizz It is to save the people of the South from themselves, and the nation from detriment on their account. The Amistad Case (1841) The Weeping Time, March 3, 1859 Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage by Frederick Douglass (January 1867) These three primary source documents each deal with the decline of slavery in the United States. Disguise it as we may, we are still a divided nation. Besides, the disabilities imposed upon all are necessarily without that bitter and stinging element of invidiousness which attaches to disfranchisement in a republic. And does not the Emperor of Russia act wisely, as well as generously, when he not only breaks up the bondage of the serf, but extends him all the advantages of Russian citizenship? The result is a war of races, and the annihilation of all proper human relations. The young men of the South burn with the desire to regain what they call the lost cause; the women are noisily malignant towards the Federal government. It is plain that, if the right belongs to any, it belongs to all. Bassett, Ebenezer D., 1833-1908--Correspondence, - The result is a war of races, and the annihilation of all proper human relations. If black men have no rights in the eyes of white men, of course the whites can have none in the eyes of the blacks. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Manuscripts, - or will you profit by the blood-bought wisdom all round you, and forever expel every vestige of the old abomination from our national borders? Hardships, services, sufferings, and sacrifices are all waived. As a nation, we cannot afford to have amongst us either this indifference and stupidity, or that burning sense of wrong. While nothing may be urged here as to the past services of the negro, it is quite within the line of this appeal to remind the nation of the possibility that a time may come when the services of the negro may be a second time required. They fought the government, not because they hated the government as such, but because they found it, as they thought, in the way between them and their one grand purpose of rendering permanent and indestructible their authority and power over the Southern laborer. Loyalty is hardly safe with traitors. However, I noticed that all three sources relate to three civil right movements and they are all trying to help the black community. Masses of men can take care of themselves. It only asks for a large degraded caste, which shall have no political rights. Congress must supplant the evident sectional tendencies of the South by national dispositions and tendencies. A very limited statement of the argument for impartial suffrage, and for including the negro in the body politic, would require more space than can be reasonably asked here. National interest and national duty, if elsewhere separated, are firmly united here. It is no less a crime against the manhood of a man, to declare that he shall not share in the making and directing of the government under which he lives, than to say that he shall not acquire property and education. It is true that they fought side by side in the loyal cause with our gallant and patriotic white soldiers, and that, but for their help, divided as the loyal States were, the Rebels might have succeeded in breaking up the Union, thereby entailing border wars and troubles of unknown duration and incalculable calamity. Waiving humanity, national honor, the claims of gratitude, the precious satisfaction arising from deeds of charity and justice to the weak and defenceless,-the appeal for impartial suffrage addresses itself with great pertinency to the darkest, coldest, and flintiest side of the human heart, and would wring righteousness from the unfeeling <> Masses of men can take care of themselves. In its pages African American studies intellectuals, community activists, and national and international political leaders come to grips with basic issues confronting black America and Africa. It is a measure of relief, a shield to break the force of a blow already descending with violence, and render it harmless. But this mark of inferiorityall the more palpable because of a difference of colornot only dooms the negro to be a vagabond, but makes him the prey of insult and outrage everywhere. 3 !1AQa"q2B#$Rb34rC%Scs5&DTdEt6UeuF'Vfv7GWgw 5 !1AQaq"2B#R3$brCScs4%&5DTdEU6teuFVfv'7GWgw ? Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage - Frederick Douglass 1867 Frederick Douglass Calls for Black Suffrage in 1866 - JSTOR You shudder to-day at the harvest of blood sown in the spring-time of the Republic by your patriot fathers. endobj Frederick Douglass: An Appeal To Congress For Impartial Suffrage "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage" | Library of Congress LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 15708. The work of destruction has already been set in motion all over the South. Men are so constituted that they largely derive their ideas of their abilities and their possibilities from the settled judgments of their fellow-men, and especially from such as they read in the institutions under which they live. Women's rights, - History is said to repeat itself, and, if so, having wanted the negro once, we may want him again. For better or for worse, (as in some of the old marriage ceremonies,) the negroes are evidently a permanent part of the American population. The hope of gaining by politics what they lost by the sword, is the secret of all this Southern unrest; and that hope must be extinguished before national ideas and objects can take full possession of the Southern mind. It is true that, notwithstanding their alleged ignorance, they were wiser than their masters, and knew enough to be loyal, while those masters only knew enough to be rebels and traitors. Plainly enough, the peace not less than the prosperity of this country is involved in the great measure of impartial suffrage. Massachusetts and South Carolina may draw tears from the eyes of our tender-hearted President by walking arm in arm into his Philadelphia Convention, but a citizen of Massachusetts is still an alien in the Palmetto State. , or . They who waged it had no objection to the government, while they could use it as a means of confirming their power over the laborer. Disfranchise them, and the mark of Cain is set upon them less mercifully than upon the first murderer, for no man was to hurt him. Which of the following sentences from the essay "An Appeal - Kunduz Weve gathered dozens of the most important pieces from our archives on race and racism in America. It is true that, notwithstanding their alleged ignorance, they were wiser than their masters, and knew enough to be loyal, while those masters only knew enough to be rebels and traitors. All this and more is true of these loyal negroes. Will you repeat the mistake of your fathers, who sinned ignorantly? Is not Austria wise in removing all ground of complaint against her on the part of Hungary? An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage "Statesmen, beware what you do. Does any sane man doubt for a moment that the men who followed Jefferson Davis through the late terrible Rebellion, often marching barefooted and hungry, naked and penniless, and who now only profess an enforced loyalty, would plunge this country into a foreign war to-day, if they could thereby gain their coveted independence, and their still more coveted mastery over the negroes? Look across the sea. What, then, is the work before Congress? He is a man, and by every fact and argument by which any man can sustain his right to vote, the negro can sustain his right equally. We have thus far only gained a Union without unity, marriage without love, victory without peace. The soil is in readiness, and the seed-time has come. It early mastered the Constitution, became superior to the Union, and enthroned itself above the law. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879--Correspondence, - Exclude the negroes as a class from political rightsteach them that the high and manly privilege of suffrage is to be enjoyed by white citizens only, that they may bear the burdens of the state, but that they are to have no part in its direction or its honors, and you at once deprive them of one of the main incentives to manly character and patriotic devotion to the interests of the government; in a word, you stamp them as a degraded caste, you teach them to despise themselves, and all others to despise them. King Cotton is deposed, but only deposed, and is ready to-day to reassert all his ancient pretensions upon the first favorable opportunity. It was a war of the rich against the poor. Is the present movement in England in favor of manhood suffrage--for the purpose of bringing four millions of British subjects into full sympathy and co-operation with the British government--a wise and humane movement, or otherwise? The new wine must be put into new bottles. Arming the negro was an urgent military necessity three years ago,are we sure that another quite as pressing may not await us? You have read "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage" by Anthony, Susan B. Exclude the negroes as a class from political rights,teach them that the high and manly privilege of suffrage is to be enjoyed by white citizens only, that they may bear the burdens of the state, but that they are to have no part in its direction or its honors,and you at once deprive them of one of the main incentives to manly character and patriotic devotion to the interests of the government; in a word, you stamp them as a degraded caste,you teach them to despise themselves, and all others to despise them. rhet terms Flashcards | Quizlet Men are so constituted that they largely derive their ideas of their abilities and their possibilities from the settled judgments of their fellow-men, and especially from such as they read in the institutions under which they live. Also, this shows us that American is formed from different race and also different culture that 's what make the US. The ploughshare of rebellion has gone through the land beam-deep. Congress must supplant the evident sectional tendencies of the South by national dispositions and tendencies. The South does not now ask for slavery. Can that be sound statesmanship which leaves millions of men in gloomy discontent, and possibly in a state of alienation in the day of national trouble? There is something immeasurably mean, to say nothing of the cruelty, in placing the loyal negroes of the South under the political power of their Rebel masters. As a nation, we cannot afford to have amongst us either this indifference and stupidity, or that burning sense of wrong. Foreign countries abound with his agents. Which of the following sentences from the essay "An - Physics - Kunduz History is said to repeat itself, and, if so, having wanted the negro once, we may want him again.
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