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Title: Life and times of Frederick Douglass
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subjects: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Antislavery movements Slavery
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Park
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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red passenger. This conduct is the homagewhich the black man pays to the white mans prejudice whosewishes, like a well-trained servant, he is taught to anticipateand obey. Time, education, and circumstances are rapidlydestroying these mere color distinctions, and men will be val-ued in this country as well as in others, for what they are,and for what they can do. My appointment at the hands of President Grant to a seatin the council—by way of eminence sometimes called theupper house of the territorial legislature of the District ofColumbia—at the time it was made, must be taken as a signalevidence of his high sense of justice, fairness, and impartiality.The. colored people of the district constituted then as nowabout one-third of the whole population. They were given byGen. Grant, three members of this legislative council—arepresentation more proportionate than any that has existedsince the government has passed into the hands of commis-sioners, for they have all been white men.
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Commissioners to Santo Domingo. DECORATION DAT AT ARLINGTON. 461 It has sometimes been asked why I am called Honorable.My appointment to this council must explain this, as it ex-plains the impartiality of Gen. Grant, though I fear it willhardly sustain this prodigious handle to my name, as well asit does the former part of this proposition. The members ofthis district council were required to be appointed by thePresident, with the advice and consent of the United StatesSenate. This is the ground, and only ground that I know of,upon which anybody has claimed this title for me. I do notpretend that the foundation is a very good one, but as I havegenerally allowed people to call me what they have pleased,and as there is nothing necessarily dishonorable in this, Ihave never taken the pains to dispute its application and pro-priety; and yet I confess that I am never so spoken of with-out feeling a trifle uncomfortable—about as much so as whenI am called, as I sometimes am, the Rev. Frede

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