Show Fred Douglass Compliment to Lincoln Lin-coln Joel Benton in Harpers Magazine for March Fred Douglass toid me when ha came to speak that with all his long experience ex-perience he never could entirely rid himself him-self of staEcfrlsht During the first H minutes when I front an audience he said my knees will knock together But when he got fairly going this not uncommon nervousness which all speakers speak-ers have sometimes felt would pas away He put his points well In any argument and his eloqusnce was of a high order His tribute in one sentence to Abraham Lincoln Is an unsurpassed comrwment Mr Lincoln he said Is the only white man Into whose presence I was ever ushered who did not make me feel that I was a negro |