. An authentic history of the Douglass monument; biographical facts and incidents in the life of Frederick Douglass ... DOUGLASS MONUMENT. ^93 had been well cultivated, and that, with a picturesque ap-pearance and considerable earnestness, enabled him to pleadfor his race with uncommon force.—Philadelphia Times. No one could start in life in more forbidding and discourag-ing circumstances than the boy who was destined to becomecelebrated on two continents as Frederick Douglass, theanti-slavery orator. His denunciations of slavery had notonly the force of conviction, but the irresistible qualit
. An authentic history of the Douglass monument; biographical facts and incidents in the life of Frederick Douglass ... DOUGLASS MONUMENT. ^93 had been well cultivated, and that, with a picturesque ap-pearance and considerable earnestness, enabled him to pleadfor his race with uncommon force.—Philadelphia Times. No one could start in life in more forbidding and discourag-ing circumstances than the boy who was destined to becomecelebrated on two continents as Frederick Douglass, theanti-slavery orator. His denunciations of slavery had notonly the force of conviction, but the irresistible quality de-rived from personal experience. American annals furnishno more captivating illustration of a self-mado man.—NewYork Tribune. Mr. Douglass was one of the closest and most cogentdebaters of the slavery question, and a most earnest and con-vincing advocate. On several occasions, in Syracuse, he wasthreatened with mob violence, once or twice was rotten-egged by slavery apologists and negro-haters; but he in-variably preserved his temper, and was never provoked todiversion from the discussion of principle to p
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