: 



OB1TIAUKS. AMKR1CAN. (DoRSEY-DouoLAsa.) 



it waa 



'!,> Ihr 1-lhCorn*, In the 



Fort llarriaon. Sept Vf. 1884,001 hon-h.- 

 aatrorawoondlnt: 

 tale Mite ha waa ejrain mentioned la general ortaft, 

 lntfceiaayeeroftEewarbeecY<- 

 .UvMon of the ItbToq*. ? wasbrevotted brig*- 

 Okr general for distinguished services on the rt, id. 

 Aftor ih war b* wa* a port-office inapt- 



tOBOni Of puM itiMiti. 



time of bit i death, superintendent of the 



by one mean* and another he obtained um 

 famed for I. ,nt ll'i^enec. Adi 



dntn began with 1. .an. I \\ ho, 



am old lu- I'MMijK-.l in in holiday. 



ty, I u- wa.s din-etcd I 

 huvid IJiii,'. nt him t-. N 



'i hi- wife. \s IK. was a 



and had mine from Haltiim-p t,. join him ; 

 condition nf his nut- in tftfl South 



Hhnologiat, born in Ha 



A achiiitftnii. 

 4. 1ft* the classical course in what 



r lollrcv of Haltimnre 10 186-'63 ; -|x nt t w. 



.n a ottOtiiurrDtMtu and a y.-ar 



M^IWd at I' Vir k Mt)iu in 



1897-71. and ww onUdned a deaoon in the Pn.tcaunt 



. 



nary work ani<>ni,: 



in Dakota m the last > 



i able to eonveme with the Indian* with- 

 fan interpreter, ill health eonpeUed him 

 work in that fluid, ami he 

 priah work in Man land from !.: till : 

 Sam appointed ethnologist t< 

 phiealSur 



Maj- veil, and went to 



Indian reservation in Nel.nu.ka. on the 

 . -a Bureau of Ethnology, 



in I 7.b was tranaferred thereto, atxl wmeni] 



te ttoiatk> and aodokrfo work till h in death. 



to 1W4 h oooflned hia inv: thetribeaof 



family. In that year he visited the Sil, -t/ 

 /on. where he obtained vocabu- 

 __-.__ grammatical notes of Athabascan, Hunan, 

 Takilman. an- 1 Yak nan languages. The result* of 

 nvsttt of hi* field and ottlcc wont were published in 

 inal reports of the Bureau of Kthnol., k r V . 

 his ant notable works are : - 1'ouka A 

 ."a I'ouka prii - < >n the 



.M Languages" 

 Onage War 



(1- .m Folklore and My 



Notes* (1S64K * Kansas Mounting and* War 



'(18 



CMtoav* (1881); "Bfouan Miirrationa" (1886) : In- 

 dian l*moal Name* " ( 188'. 



MM, Myth glories, and Letters n ; and - Omaha and 

 Poka Letter." He had also compiled a " D: 

 Mtefcaojft Kngliah-Dhegiha Dictionary" . 



journalist and orator, born in 

 Talhnt Count v. Md.. ii 



navy, 1917: died near Waahinirt 



188; The life of Frederick Douffla** i* or 



one of the 

 most wonderful sto- 

 ries ever written, 

 and seldom has pen 

 or tongue told the 

 .- .-.... 

 the lessons 

 inanity with mop- 



: diction and 

 his. Of hU birth he 



recollections of my 

 mother are a few 



- - .. .-. 

 the night on foot. 

 - tall and 



with regular features, 

 rrtnarkablv sedate and 

 I kiv-u othini.'. Slav- 



injf fort une*. 

 city of Balti- 

 for, and what 



disabilities under which people ..t ,-..l..r lai...r. 



in many | 



Through f 



in e.intaet with William I.l..\d (,.. 



at an anti- ntion held in N 



was first heard in puhlic, and hi* elo<|ii. 



moved cv. r\ 1,. 



was soon proposed to him to In-come an agent 

 Massachusetts Antislavery Soci, 

 for it. With trr.at enthusiasm be set 



duty a>siu'Mcd him he:: 



. r and solieit >n ' 



iar-i " and the - Li).. , mest- 



iiiLT- ]'P'\ed wonderfully sui-.-->sful. l p 

 and retold hi- ton . at 

 applications. Hut s.n thi- iiuth<i 



I >oiiirla>.s. : 

 thinkintr. New 



mind. It did n- rongs; 



1 felt like denouncinir them. My fri. t 

 pin me lown to simple narrative !, 

 little plantation *|>eech.' 4 It i- not |,,*t t 

 too learned." 1 The danger feared I 

 followed Douglass's erTrt- to \iild t- 

 and put the soul and mind that were 

 the finished rhetoric and strong 1'^'ic that Deemed 

 iM.rn in him. People be^an to doiiht uh, 

 had e\ 



tir>t hook. Mr. G nd Wendell I'hill 



no faith in the power of Manaaehu-i " 

 Donriaaa, aboold the exposure result ii. 



at his recapture, and they advi>ed him to tl 

 maiiUAcript into the fire. This, ad vie. 

 lowed, and the storv, told a* only In 

 made unnumbered mends tor the -lave thr 



rth. It produced also anothei 

 Kntrlish admirer-, heariiii.' of the d 

 raised and forwarded the sum necessary i 

 manumission. In i-i: 1 , the N 

 ery Society asa to ace* 



Messrs. Ilradlmrn. John 



liam A. \N hit.-. Chaiv 

 Sydney Howard day ..n a tour of 

 through New Hampshire. Vermont. N. 

 Indiana, and Pennsylvania, With 

 -ympathy and aOOM thene lectures were COli 

 and everywhere l)ou^hu*s made personal 

 John A. Collins, who wns general a_-. nt of 1 

 ety, was a communist, and -r 



era to present t) |.n\t- 



ownernhip of pp.pcrn . He j>rojkM-<l that I 

 these men should attend theantisl; 

 make common cause, Douglass was to M 



ise, wherea hearini: hd lie, 

 with givut difficulty. While tl. 



-s Collins came in and prop. 

 cause of antMavery be set aside and comnm- 

 presente.l. To this Doiitrlfr- 

 that the already unpipular cause eonl.i 

 new burden: and that Mr. Collins, a- 

 waa cnirairol U> j.l- ad the ai 

 these hundred eon\.nt -.-. Douglass wrote 

 board of manogerM about the matt. r. and ; 

 from Mm. Maria Weston Chapman, an in: 



-han. reprimand for 

 his superior*. In : - ; Mi 

 land, and mad.- many litV-lon^r tri- 

 were .John Bright and K'ieh: 

 Knclimcl proponed a testimonial 



ss sutrirtted that it be in tin t..rm of a 

 ing press, and aid in establishing in the 

 States a newspaper in the interest** of his ra<-e. H< 



