It is to save the people of the South from themselves, and the nation from detriment on their account. It is true that they came to the relief of the country at the hour of its extremest need. 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. 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. The new wine must be put into new bottles. The doctrine that some men have no rights that others are bound to respect, is a doctrine which we must banish as we have banished slavery, from which it emanated. 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. It must cause national ideas and objects to take the lead and control the politics of those States. A nation might well hesitate before the temptation to betray its allies. United States, series: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1846-1894; Speeches, Articles, and Other Writings Attributed to Frederick or Helen Pitts Douglass, 1881-1887. Strong as we are, we need the energy that slumbers in the black mans arm to make us stronger. If these bless them, they are blest indeed; but if these blast them, they are blasted indeed. All this and more is true of these loyal negroes. But suffrage for the negro, while easily sustained upon abstract principles, demands consideration upon what are recognized as the urgent necessities of the case. 20072023 Blackpast.org. You shudder to-day at the harvest of blood sown in the spring-time of the Republic by your patriot fathers. Which of the following sentences from the essay "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage" by Frederick Douglas indicates a claim by the writer? Statesmen of America! It is nothing against this reasoning that all men who vote are not good men or good citizens. The South does not now ask for slavery. Sitemap. Directions. But no such an appeal shall be relied on here. 865-425-9601. They are too numerous and useful to be colonized, and too enduring and self-perpetuating to disappear by natural causes. The proposition is as modest as that made on the mountain: All these things will I give unto thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me.. "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage" Contributor Names Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Created / Published January-April 1881 Subject Headings - Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 . 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. The South fought for perfect and permanent control over the Southern laborer. Impartial history will paint them as men who deserved well of their country. From "Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage" - Brainly 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? Collapse All | Expand All An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage Frederick Douglass Atlantic Monthly January 1867 An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
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