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[3] Travel widely, think
Our Republic is itself a strong argument in favor
of composite nationality. It is no disparagement
to Americans of English descent, to affirm that broadly, and act locally
much of the wealth, leisure, culture, refinement
and civilization of the country are due to the arm
of the negro and the muscle of the Irishman . . .

I close these remarks as I began. If our action
shall be in accordance with the principles of
justice, liberty, and perfect human equality, no
eloquence can adequately portray the greatness
and grandeur of the future of the Republic.

Plaque marking burial site for 2600 victims
We shall spread the network of our science and
of the Irish Famine/Wikimedia Commons
civilization over all who seek their shelter
whether from Asia, Africa, or the Isles of the sea. Douglass took his advocacy of abolitionism and
We shall mold them all, each after his kind, into scathing criticism of American hypocrisy to
hundreds of towns and cities in the United
Americans; Indian and Celt; negro and Saxon;
States--and was driven out of more than a few
Latin and Teuton; Mongolian and Caucasian;
of them. Over time, he expressed views that
Jew and Gentile; all shall here bow to the same
were enriched by international travel, especially
law, speak the same language, support the
in Scotland and Ireland. The following
same Government, enjoy the same liberty,
description is provided by Yale Historian David
vibrate with the same national enthusiasm, and
Blight in his Pulitzer-Prize-winning book
seek the same national ends.
Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom:

In a public letter to [abolitionist William Lloyd]
Garrison in February 1846 . . . Douglass took time
to reflect on what he had seen of Ireland. As the
American abroad, he felt compelled to expose
'other evils' than slavery. 'I am not only an
American slave,' he wrote, 'but a man, and as
such, am bound to use my powers for the welfare
of the whole human brotherhood. I am not going
through this land with my eyes shut, ears
stopped, or heart steeled.' For the moment he
put aside his disdain for the analogy between
Irish misery and American slavery. Too many
self-styled 'philanthropists,' maintained
Douglass, 'care no more about Irishmen . . . than

they care about the whipped, gagged, and
Chinese American Activist Wong Chin Foo thumb-screwed slave.
(1877)

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