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Show To t!te Editor of tlw ".Aulograplts for Freedom." D£Ail. i\fAr>A~r,- lf the enclosed pm·ngrnph from n speech of mine dclivci'Cd in Mny la~t, at the anni\·cr·s:~.r·y meeting- of the American and For·eigu Auti·Sla\'CI'Y Socicl.y, sh:dl be t~cemcd suitcU to lbc pages of the furLh· coming anuu11l, please accept it n.s my contribution. \\' ith great respect, RocHESTER., Novcmbc1·, 1853. <trtnr .ct. NO colored man, with any nervous sensibility, can l:ltand before nn American audience without an intense and painful sense of the disadvantages imposed by l1is color. ITo feels little borne up by that brotherly sympathy and generous enthusiasm, which give wings to t11C eloquence, and strenglh to the hea1·ts of other men, who advocate other and more popular causes. 1'hc ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly |
