Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
Newspaper, a complete and authentic issue of the National Anti Slavery Standard, New York, May 11, 1861, 4pp., VG. From the interior, a brief report of a Frederick Douglass speech, in part, “Frederick Douglass, in a speech on the war, replying to the question ‘What are you colored men going to do?’ said: Let a few colored regiments go down South, and assist in setting their brothers free and they could and would do this work effectively for our Government. He was ready to go; but this did not imply much courge, for he knew he would not be accepted. The South are wiser in their generation than the North. Black people are being made soldiers at Montgomery. They piled the sand bags and raised the batteries which drove Major Anderson from Sumter; but you Northerners are too aristocratic to march by the side of a ‘nigger.’ But the time may yet come when the President shall proclaim liberty through all the land ....”
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