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Show i". h. jtiMiTrit roii.u" IlasKomrlulncNIralrbl I. sr " The Elrrllons lllll. Washington, Aug. IS. Frederick Fred-erick Douglas, the great colored leader and United blates minister to Haytl, Isrestliigln his beautiful home In Anacosta, Just across the Potomac Xo man is more thorough! tho-rough! hi sympathy with the movement to press the elections bill to a final passage than he. He repels re-pels Willi scorn the Intimation that his race had repudiated it and declares de-clares that ho aud Ills brethren are heart anl soul for the bill. Mr. Douglas was found by your correspondent corres-pondent tonight, and asked to furnish fur-nish his views ou tlio federal Uec-tlonsbill. Uec-tlonsbill. lie towed his head in serious reflection for a moment and replied: "I regard it as one of the most Important measures that has ever been presented ti Congress. It meets with my rao-t cordial approval. It as said by a great statesman many years ago that the United states Uovtrnmrnt would not long stand with one lia f of its jcople free and the oilier half slave?. He was a projhet. The supreme moment came and our rcputdlc assumed a new life over the grave of slaviry. Does any oue believe Hint no can iowi-nuitn Iirgejatt of our citl uiu,holli whiteaud colored, to be disfranchised? Tliebill. as I understand under-stand It, applies to tiie liumbleat of our citizens, rcgaidlcs of color Tiie times cry aloud that something niu-t tie done. No man who la lievcs in Ju-ticc can opir-e this bill. Itseiieinteiareshrirking that it is a 'force' bill. Who eer heard of a Ian that amounted to anything which did nut have force behind it; "I Ii ive seen it stated thai colored men have been found who wire against the avago of thu bill. I cannot believe they are sane. The grand old ni'iblicnn jarty has from itsbirth slfjod fur the right, and it I-!mpciblc I-!mpciblc for it to escape the re-sMiuibility re-sMiuibility of securing to tviry citizen Hie privilege of casting his I-al'ot and having it ccuuted. Tin eaigeiicy of tiie times created the republican artt. It was brought liitolifefurasnecial tsirnose. That purasv was to place thlsgoviru tueiit u-ii stronger and broader foundations. Thin country is the heme for the or man as will at fir the rich. I hope tint the sun has ill but ml uon the day when man's complexion delurx him from the benefits towhkli our Cunslltu Hon guarantees. The lepuMIean parly can nu more alondon its mi siou than the waves of the sea can remain motlonlcv." |