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Young Douglass's flight had no outward semblance of dramatic incident or thrilling episode, and yet, as he modestly says, "the courage that could risk betrayal and the bravery which was ready to encounter death, if need be, in pursuit of freedom, were features in the undertaking. My success was due to address rather than to courage, to good luck rather than bravery.
By-and-by, when we have time to think of other things than money, when our wives have ceased to struggle for social success, when the reaction to a simpler and truer life comes and it is coming then the quality of such a play as Enid's Choice will give its author the fame and the living he deserves." The tears came to Douglass's eyes. "Good old Jim! He knows I need comfort this morning.
In silence Carter strode after him until they reached Douglass's apartments; then turning to the silent man before him, he sternly asked: "What have you done to my sister?" Douglass, leaning against the window jamb, looking out into the soft summer night, made no reply. Carter crossed over fiercely and wrenched him around. "Answer me! Or by God, I'll tear it out of you with my hands!"
Then placing one foot on Douglass's neck he laconically announced: "Tied! Put the iron to 'im, Yule." The little girl thrust the end of the brand against the brawny shoulder now quivering with the suppressed laughter of its owner and made a quaint sizzling noise with her puckered lips.
After the North Star had been in existence several years, its name was changed to Frederick Douglass's Paper, to give it a more distinctive designation, the newspaper firmament already scintillating with many other "Stars." In later years Douglass speaks of this newspaper enterprise as one of the wisest things he ever undertook.
Among the most noteworthy of Douglass's later addresses were the oration at the unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument to Abraham Lincoln in Washington in 1876, which may be found in his Life and Times; the address on Decoration Day, New York, 1878; his eulogy on Wendell Phillips, printed in Austin's Life and Times of Wendell Phillips; and the speech on the death of Garrison, June, 1879.
The necessary support could only be secured by a change of principles in accordance with Mr. Douglass's own statement does not differ very widely from this, except that he does not admit the mercenary motive for his change of principles.
She was presently rewarded with the promise of the very person she wanted a boy, or young man, then in Earl Douglass's employ; but his wife said, "she guessed he'd give him up to her;" and what his wife said, Fleda knew Earl Douglass was in the habit of making good. "There aint enough to do to keep him busy," said Mrs. Douglass.
"Better get up to the shack, Red," he said quietly, "You've lost a lot of juice." The man smiled wanly, reeled In his saddle, and clutching fruitlessly at the horn, slipped limply down into Douglass's supporting arms. Subsequent examination revealed that he had also been wounded by the Mexican's rifle shot.
Her cousin gave an imitation of Lady Douglass's speech and manner, and Gertie imitated the imitation. Mr.
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