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Prejudice Against the Colored Man
Mr.
President, with much feeling do I rise to address the society on this
resolution, and I should hardly have been induced to have done it had I not been
requested. I confess I am personally interested in this resolution. But were it
not for the fact that none can feel the lash but those who have it upon them,
that none know where the chain galls but those who wear it, I would not address
you.
This is a
serious business, sir. The prejudice which exists against the colored man, the
free man is like the atmosphere, everywhere felt by him. It is true that in
these United States and in this State, there are men, like myself, colored with
the skin like my own, who are not subjected to the lash, who are not liable to
have their wives and their infants torn from them: from whose hand the Bible is
not taken. It is true that we may walk abroad; we may enjoy our domestic
comforts, our families; retire to the closet; visit the sanctuary, and may be
permitted to urge on our children and our neighbors in well doing. But sir,
still we are slaves--everywhere we feel the chain galling us. It is by that
prejudice which the resolution condemns, the spirit of slavery, the law which
has been enacted here, by a corrupt public sentiment, through the influence of
slavery which treats moral agents different from the rule of God, which treats
them irrespective of their morals or intellectual cultivation. This spirit is
withering all our hopes, and ofttimes causes the colored parent as he looks upon
his child, to wish he had never been born. Often is the heart of the colored
mother, as she presses her child to her bosom, filled with sorrow to think that,
by reason of this prejudice, it is cut off from all hopes of usefulness in this
land. Sir, this prejudice is wicked.
If the
nation and church understood this matter, I would not speak a word about that
killing influence that destroys the colored man's reputation. This influence
cuts us off from everything; it follows us up from childhood to manhood; it
excludes us from all stations of profit, usefulness and honor; takes away from
us all motive for pressing forward in enterprises, useful and important to the
world and to ourselves.
In the
first place, it cuts us off from the advantages of the mechanic arts almost
entirely. A colored man can hardly learn a trade, and if he does it is difficult
for him to find any one who will employ him to work at that trade, in any part
of the State. In most of our large cities there are associations of mechanics
who legislate out of their society colored men. And in many cases where our
young men have learned trades, they have had to come to low employments for want
of encouragement in those trades.
It must
be a matter of rejoicing to know that in this vicinity colored fathers and
mothers have the privileges of education. It must be a matter of rejoicing that
in this vicinity colored parents can have their children trained up in
schools.--At present, we find the colleges barred against them.
I will
say nothing about the inconvenience which I have experienced myself, and which
every man of color experiences, though made in the image of God. I will say
nothing about the inconvenience of traveling; how we are frowned upon and
despised. No matter how we may demean ourselves, we find embarrassments
everywhere.
But sir,
this prejudice goes farther. It debars men from heaven. While sir, slavery cuts
off the colored portion of the community from religious privileges men are made
infidels. What, they demand, is your Christianity? How do you regard your
brethren? How do you treat them at the Lord's table? Where is your consistency
in talking about the heathen, traversing the ocean to circulate the Bible
everywhere, while you frown upon them at the door? These things meet us and
weigh down our spirits. . . .
Thanks be
to God, there is a buoyant principle which elevates the poor down-trodden
colored man above all this:--It is that there is society which regards man
according to his worth; it is the fact, that when he looks up to Heaven he knows
that God treats him like a moral agent, irrespective of caste or the
circumstances in which he may be placed. Amid the embarrassments which he has to
meet, and the scorn and contempt that is heaped upon him, he is cheered by the
hope that he will be disenthralled, and soon, like a bird set forth from its
cage, wing his flight to Jesus, where he can be happy, and look down with pity
on the man who despises the poor slave for being what God made him, and who
despises him because he is identified with the poor slave. Blessed be God for
the principles of the Gospel. Were it not for these, and for the fact that a
better day is dawning, I would not wish to live.--Blessed be God for the
anti-slavery movement. Blessed be God that there is a war waging with slavery,
that the granite rock is about to be rolled from its base. But as long as the
colored man is to be looked upon as an inferior caste, so long will they
disregard his cries, his groans, his shrieks.
I
rejoice, sir, in this Society; and I deem the day when I joined this Society as
one of the proudest days of my life. And I know I can die better, in more peace
to-day, to know there are men who will plead the cause of my children.
Let me,
through you, sir, request this delegation to take hold of this subject. This
will silence the slaveholder, when he says where is your love for the slave?
Where is your love for the colored man who is crushed at your feet? Talking to
us about emancipating our slaves when you are enslaving them by your feelings,
and doing more violence to them by your prejudice, than we are to our slaves by
our treatment. They call on us to evince our love for the slave, by treating man
as man, the colored man as a man, according to his worth.
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