Sections 1 ORATION BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS, DELIVERED ON THE OCCASION OF THE UNVEILING OF THE FREEDMEN’S… 2 Friends and fellow citizens, the story of our presence here is soon and easily told. 3 For the first time in the history of our people, and in the history of the whole American… 4 He was preëminently the white man’s President, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men. 5 Fellow citizens, ours is no new-born zeal and devotion—merely a thing of this moment. 6 When, therefore, it shall be asked what we have to do with the memory of Abraham Lincoln, or… 7 Fellow citizens, there is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and… 8 Fellow citizens, whatever else in the world may be partial, unjust, and uncertain, time, time! 9 Upon his inauguration as President of the United States, an office, even where assumed under… 10 Fellow citizens, the fourteenth day of April, 1865, of which this is the eleventh… 11 [Illustration: A. 12 In the history of the American conflict with slavery, the day we celebrate has played an… 13 The answer is easily given. 14 Let no American, especially no colored American, withhold a generous recognition of this… 15 These grand men and their brave co-workers here, took up the moral thunder-bolts which had… 16 It was the tory party in England that fought the abolition party at home, and the same party… 17 We have gone still further. 18 In the hurry and confusion of the hour, and the eager desire to have the Union restored,… 19 History does not furnish an example of emancipation under conditions less friendly to the… 20 The statement is erroneous and contradicted by the whole history of human progress. 21 With money and property comes the means of knowledge and power.
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