Show FREDERICK DOuGLASS Fred Douglas will go into history as the Grand Old Man of the colored race Champaign Gazette He was tile Moses of his people No colored man jn half a century will be to widely lamented by both races Ohio State Journal It was not that Fred Douglass did remarkably re-markably well for a colored man he did wonderfully well for a man of any color Boston Post I Author orator statesman and leader II of his race he achieved a position and wielded an influence to which few men can aspire New York World His memory should be ever kept green by every American citizen of African blood foe his labors aided materially in the mighty work of fveeUom Toledo Blade The colored people of the United States may well venerate Ms memory not for what he did alone but for what he was the prophesy of a coming race Topeka Capital In the death of Frederick Douglass one of the great characters of the century has passed away His career was one of the most remarkable of historyDayton Journal Frederick Douglass was the man who compelled a reluctant people to admit that a man of African blood could be an intellectual force He will hold a place 3n history among the greatest of Americans Ameri-cans Indianapolis Journal Sir Douglass struggles and achievements achieve-ments would have been praiseworthy and admIral in a man of whatever race or color In the instance of one who began life under the most discouraging circumstances circum-stances imaginable they lift him to a high place among the men of the time Indianapolis In-dianapolis Newe I Because of his mixture of race and I breed the world must yet wait for the 1 actual consummate tlorescence of the pure African intellect art scholarship and statesmanship But next to Alexander Alexan-der Dumas Frederick Douglass Was the most renowned successful and honored representative of the colored raceDe trolt News He was a great man in the work which Providence assigned him he was a good citizen and a splendid and lofty exemplar exemp-lar to lila own people and hen we are building monuments to the men who were leaders and liberators let us express our appreciation of the worthiness of Fred Douglass by the same durable slgn3t Paul Dispatch He was to aspiring negro manhood what the great and good men of the Anglo Saxon race have been and are to the ambitious and progressive young men of that race Of a truth it may be said of Frederick Douglass His life was gentle and the elements So fnixed in him that Nature might standup stand-up And say to ail the world Tills was a man1 No man who ever heard Frederick Douglass speak in those days of his power pow-er could ever again believe that the black man was fit fpr no place in the world but the place of a slave other r black men of exceptional ability there have been and under tho new conditions there will be many more But Frederick Douglass has a place in history which Is all his own and the lesson that he taught can never be forgotten Pittsburf Times o b t < < 1i |