Yougherty be heard patiently by the audience.” DM, 5: 694 (Au gust 1862).įELLOW CITIZENS: Eighty-six years ago the fourth of July was consecrated and distinguished among all the days of the year as the birthday, of Ameri can liberty and Independence. Yougherty narrowly escaped being removed from the meeting as a disturber, and probably would have been handled roughly, but for our honest solicitation that Mr. Yougherty could not disprove a single statement. Yougherty was grieved,” Douglass recalled, “but Mr. Even so, at least one listener did not approve of Douglass’s Fourth of July oration. A month later Douglass confessed that he then “should use language far more pungent” than he employed in Himrod’s to criticize President Lincoln and General George B. Douglass, who described his audience as remarkably “orderly, intelligent and thoughtful,” delivered a lengthy lecture on the causes and proper conduct of the war. Local young people supplemented the program by playing rousing band music. one Church, two Taverns, one Grocery and a Railroad Sta tion.” He later wrote, “But what a place for a celebration thought we.” At 10:00 A.M., however, a crowd of two thousand, many of whom had come by rail from the nearby towns of Penn Yan and Canandaigua, gathered in a pine grove to hear speeches by Douglass, a Dr. Independence Day 1862 began inauspiciously for Douglass when no one met his train in Himrod’s, New York, a town consisting of a “half dozen neat little dwellings. Another text in Foner, Life and Writings, 3: 242-59. THE SLAVEHOLDERS’ REBELLION: AN ADDRESS DELIVERED IN HIMROD’S, NEW YORK, ON 4 JULY 1862ĭouglass' Monthly, 5: 689-93 (August 1862).
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