The American Negro From 1776 to 1876 Oration Delivered July 4 1876 At Avonda
The American Negro From 1776 to 1876 Oration Delivered July 4 1876 At Avonda
Williams George Washington
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Your general anticipates them in applauding your noble ardor. " Praise, in such terms, and from such a source, renders eulogy superfluous. It comes not from the pen of a biased [18] historian, nor from the note-book of a prejudiced corres- pondent, but from the lips of the inflexible old warrior, who had often tried them in the melting flames of battle, and, therefore, knew what he spake, and could testify to what he had seen. We may cast a proud glance over the battlefield of 1812. And we will... find that there is not a single spot lighted with the glory of military achievement; not an inch of ground consecrated to manhood, loyalty, and freedom, but what is familiar with the transcendent valor and the in- comparable fidelity of the negro soldier. The testimony of General Jackson is the opinion of their white fellow- soldiers, and the verdict of the history of those times. THE RELATION OF THE COLORED SOLDIER TO THE TRIUMPH OF OUR NATIONAL ARMS IN THE SLAVEHOLDER'S REBELLION. If you had asked an anti-slavery man thirty years ago how the slave question would be settled, he would have most confidently answered, " By compromise, legislation, without shedding one drop of blood.
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