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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 405 Print image (87K) |
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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 405 Print image (87K) |
| Untitled 11/7/99 9:52 PM It was the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties, and I look back to it no after so many years, with scms corplacency and a little wonder that I could have been so earnest and persevering in any pursuit other than for rry daily bread. I certainly saw nothing in the conduct of those around to inspire me with such interest: they were all devoted exclusively to what their hands found to do. I am glad to be able to say that, during rry engagement in this foundry, no corplaint was ever made against me that I did not do ny work, and do it well. The bellows which I worked ty nHin strength vas, after I left, moved ty a steam-engine. Douglass, Frederick. "Reconstruction." Atlantic Monthly 18 (1866): 761-765. RBOCNSIRimOSf The assorbling of the Second Session of the Thirty-nint±i Congress may very properly be made the occasion of a few earnest wDrds on the already rruch-wDrn topic of reconstruction. Seldom has any legislative bod/ been the subject of a solicitude more intense, or of aspirations more sincere and ardent. There are the best of reasons for this profound interest. Questions of vast moment, left undecided ky the last session of Congress, rrust be rranfully grappled with ty this. No political skirmishing will avail The occasion dotards statesmanship. Vfether the tremendous war so heroically fought and so victoriously ended shall pass into history a miserable failure, barren of penrenent results,— a scandalous and shocking waste of blood and treasure,—a strife for arpire, as Earl Russell characterized it, of no value to liberty or civilization, —an atterpt to re-establish a Union ky force, which rrust be the merest mockery of a Union,—an effort to bring under Federal authority States into which no Icyal man from the North may safely enter, and to bring men into the national councils who deliberate with daggers and vote with revolvers, and who do not even conceal their deadly hate of the country that conquered than; or whether, on the other hand, we shall, as the rightful regard of victory over treason, have a solid natio: entirely delivered from all contradictions and social antagonisms, based upon loyalty, liberty, and equality, most be determined one way or the other ty the present session of Congress. The last session http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/USA/Afro-Amer/dugl210.txt Page 11 of 17 |