...not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice,...inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, cits* izens, to mock me, by asking me to apeak to-day ? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct....

...not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, / must mouru. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to...

...not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, / must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into tha grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman...

...not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, / must mourn. To drag a ma:i in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous...

...and my burden easy and delightful. . . . This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand...anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. . . . Fellow citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions, whose...

...and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. The Fourth of July is yours, not mine. Ton, may rejoice — / must mourn. To drag a man in fetters...into the grand, illuminated Temple of Liberty, and there call him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.' How appropriate...

...supposedly free institutions of America, all of which were overladen with prejudice. At Rochester he said, "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. "You may...anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony." He quoted with telling effect Psalm 137: "By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept...

...1852, he told them: The Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, 7 must mourn. To drag a man into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and...anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. * • * Fellow citizens, above your national tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions,...

...Negro abolitionist, addressed the citizens of Rochester on Independence Day, 1852, he told them: The Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, / must mourn. To drag a man into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were...

...oration in 1852 to a white audience said, "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You nay rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand...anthems, were Inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony." Douglass ended his speech, however, by expressing his belief in the destiny of the United States. He...