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66303 approaches Horton-in-Ribblesdale with 6K05 12:46 Carlisle North Yard to Crewe Basford Hall engineers. 15/2/2019.
1:9 Halcyon Model Kit
This took way longer that I expected. Which seemed like a very straight forward assembly and easy paint, ended up as a very challenging and interesting kit.
I used a real tiny chain, since the molded one looked NOTHING like the movie prop. But overall, it's a very accurate model, I was surprised with the level of detail this guy has. My only complaint is his legs look kind of skinny... I'm not sure if Stallone's legs look like that, but they just seem a little off (just A LITTLE though, and this does not detract from the overall look)
Whatever you may think about the movie, you have to admit that the costume looks cool!
Another different operator in DRS which somewhat surprised me at Peak Dale. I'm lead to believe as 66433 is due a major exam which although not evident in this shot as it were static, but plumes of blue smoke was emitted as it started to push back!
Consecutively numbered 'Dreds' 66423 and 66424 amble along at Flag Lane with the 6K05 Carlisle to Crewe. Fortunately given the fast encroaching shadows, this was routed along the fast lines
My entry for the Munny Munth Custom Munny Contest
UPDATE: won 2nd prize, check it out here: sites.kidrobot.com/munnymunth/winners.php
Now for sale here: dredrwc.bigcartel.com
The finished product. We had two days to work on it, which was amazing, because after you've faffed around priming and setting up boards so they don't flatten people in the wind, you only really have about 6 or 7 hours solid painting time.
This way we came back refreshed the next day and had as much time as we wanted to add in detail, cut in and double coat.
Click on "All Sizes" above to see the difference.
Left: ROSTone Right: DRED
Jersey live was also an absolute blast, so a massive thanks to Fran for sorting us out with tickets and a great spot to paint.
Harry Weber's sculpture of Dred and Harriet Scott, located on the south lawn of the Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, was dedicated on June 8, 2012. The plaque on the statue reads as follows:
"Dred and Harriet Scott filed suit for their freedom at this courthouse in 1846. Their case reached the United States Supreme Court and was decided in 1857. The Court ruled that the Scotts and all African Americans were not citizens of the United States. Opposition to the decision was one of the causes of the Civil War and led to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. The Scotts’ struggle for freedom stands as a defining moment in the history of the Civil Rights Movement."
66743 departs Carnoustie via the crossover working 1Z25 Dundee (vice Leuchars) to Dunkeld via Carnoustie "Roaring Forks" Royal Scotsman charter. 28/9/2017
Having been added to the train over the weekend 66422 takes it,s turn on "Leafbusting" duties and is seen speeding through Blackburn Station working 3J11 Carlisle-Carlisle Circa RHTT train.
Afrikaans: Europese Spreeu
Arabic: الزرزور, الزرزور سمن سلو, سمن سلو
Asturian: Estornín Pintu
Azerbaijani: Adi sığırçın
Belarusian: špak, Звычайны шпак, шпак
Bulgarian: skorec, Обикновен скорец, скорец
Breton: An dred, dred
Catalan: estornell, Estornell vulgar, Oriol
Catalan (Balears): Estornell
Valencian: Oriol
Czech: špaček, Špacek obecný, Špaček obecný, špaèek obecný
Chuvash: Шăнкăрч
Welsh: Aderyn y ddrycin, Aderyn yr eira, Dreydwen, Drudw, drudwen, Drudwy, Drwdw, Drydwy, Sgrech
Danish: Stær
German: Gemeiner Star, Star
Greek: (Ευρωπαϊκό) Ψαρόνι, [psaroni], psaroni, Λαζούρι , Ψαρόνι
Greek (Cypriot): Λαζούρι
Emiliano-romagnolo: Arghebul
English: Common Starling, English Starling, Eurasian Starling, European Starling, Northern Starling, Starling
Esperanto: sturno
Spanish: Cuervo, Estornino, Estornino común, Estornino Europeo, Estornino Pinto
Spanish (Argentine): Estornino común, Estornino pinto
Spanish (Cuba): Estornino
Spanish (Mexico): Estornino Europeo, estornino pinto
Spanish (Uruguay): Estornino
Estonian: Kuldnokk
Basque: Araba zozo pikarta, arabazozo, Arabazozo pikart, Estornell vulgar
Persian: پرى شاهرخ طلايی
Finnish: Kottarainen
Faroese: stari
French: étourneau, Etourneau sansonnet, Étourneau sansonnet
Friulian: sturnel
Frisian: protter
Irish: druid, estorniño
Gaelic: Druid, Truid
Galician: Estornell vulgar , Estorniño pinto, Ouriolo
Guarani: Guyrajuhũ
Manx: Truitlag, trutlag
Hebrew: זרזיר, זרז-יר, זרזיר מצוי, זרז-יר מצוי
Croatian: Cvorak, Čvorak, Šareni čvorak
Hungarian: Seregély
Armenian: [Sovorakan Saryak ], Սովորական Սարյակ
Icelandic: Stari
Italian: Galbéder, Storno, Storno comune, Storno europeo
Brescian: Galbéder
Japanese: Hoshi muku-dori, hoshimukudori, Hoshi-Mukudori
Japanese: ホシムクドリ
Georgian: მოლაღური, შოშია, ჩვეულებრივი შროშანი
Khakas: Парчых
Kazakh: Қараторғай, Мысықторғай, Сарғалдақ
Korean: 흰점찌르레기
Kashmiri: [Posh Nool]
Cornish: Tros, trosen
Latin: Sturnus vulgaris
Ladino: storno
Lithuanian: Paprastasis varnenas, Paprastasis varnėnas, Šnekutis, Špokas, varnėnas
Latvian: Mačiņš, majas strazds, mājas strazds, Melnais strazds
Macedonian: skolovranec, Обичен сколовранец, сколовранец
Mongolian: Хар тодол
Maltese: sturnell
Dutch: Europeese Spreeuw, Spreeuw
Norwegian: Stær
Occitan: estornèl
Polish: szpak, szpak (zwyczajny), Szpak zwyczajny
Portuguese: Estorinho-malhado, estorninho, estorninho malhado, Estorninho-malhado
Romansh: sturnel
Romanian: graur
Russian: Obyknovenny Skvorets, skvorec, Обыкновенный скворец, Обыкновеный скворец, Серый скворец, скворец, Скворец обыкновенный
Sardinian: istrullu pintirinadu, istùrulu campinu, istůrulu campinu, puzone nieddu, sturru grandinau
Scots: druid, Truid
Northern Sami: stárra
Slovak: Ékorec lesklý, Ékorec obyčajný, obyčajný lesklý, škorec, škorec lesklý, Škorec obyčajný
Slovenian: navadni škorec, škorec
Albanian: Cerloi i zi pikalosh, gargulli
Serbian: Cvorak, čvorak, cvorak (brljak), obicni cvorak, obični čvorak, Обични чворак, чворак
Sotho, Southern: Leholi
Swedish: Stare
Tamil: [Manja kili]
Thai: นกกิ้งโครงพันธุ์ยุโรป
Turkmen: sığyrcık
Turkish: Sığırcık, Sışırcık, syğyrcyk
Tuvinian: Кара-баарзык
Ukrainian: špak, Звичайний шпак, шпак, Шпак звичайний
Vietnamese: Sáo đá, Sáo đá xanh
Sorbian, Lower: škorc
Sorbian, Upper: škórc
Chinese: [Ou liang-niao], [Ouzhou ba-ga], [Ouzhou liang-niao], [zi-chi liang-niao], 欧椋鸟, 欧洲八哥, 歐洲椋鳥, 紫翅椋鳥, 紫翅椋鸟
Chinese (Taiwan): [Ouzhou liang-niao], 歐洲椋鳥
Name: Dred Scott
Dates: 1795-1858
Biography:
Dred Scott was an African-American slave who sued for his freedom in the antebellum (pre-Civil War) period of United States history. Born as the property of U.S. Representative Henry Taylor Blow's parents, when the family had financial problems, Scott was sold to Dr. John Emerson. Emerson traveled frequently, including to states where slavery was illegal.
When Emerson died in 1843, Scott became the property of his widow Irene, whose brother John Sandford became the executor of her late husband's estate. Attempting to follow the principle "once free, always free" (since he had traveled to states such as Wisconsin and Missouri), Scott sued for his freedom in 1846, financed by his former owners, the Blow family.
After 11 years of lawsuits, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision, ruling that no person of African descent (regardless of their status as slaves or free people) could be a U.S. citizen, and could therefore never have the right to sue for their own freedom.
In the meantime, Irene Sandford Emerson had married a noted abolitionist, who was unaware that his wife owned one of the most famous slaves of the era. Irene's new husband returned Scott to the Blow family, who were now living in Missouri and could therefore emancipate him. In 1858, Dred Scott died of tuberculosis, only nine months after earning his freedom.
Learn more: Wikipedia
(http://www.brothers-brick.com/2008/01/18/dred-scott/)
From Grand Rapids, Michigan, Jennie F. Clauson saw her world change!
1850 Grand Rapids population: 2686
1856 Jennie F. Clauson is born
1857 The Dred Scott ruling--slaves are not citizens
1859 Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species is published
1859 The French take over Saigon
1859 British scientist John Tyndall describes carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor trapping heat in the atmosphere; and he suggests that change in the concentration of gases could bring climate change
1859 The first successful oil well in the United States is drilled, in northern Pennsylvania.
1860 Grand Rapids population: 8085
1861 The Union Army reacts to the CSA; the Civil War begins
1862 The Homestead Act encourages naturalization by granting citizens title to 160 acres
1862 Dakota War
1864 Sand Creek Massacre -- US Army slaughters Cheyenne and Arapaho families
1865 General Lee surrenders to the Union Army; the Civil War is over
1865 President Lincoln is assassinated
1865 The Calumet Company is formed, soon to become Calumet & Hecla Mining Company. The copper mining industry is in full swing in Michigan's Keweenaw.
1866 Jennie F. Clauson is 10 years old
1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is founded
1866 Congressional Reconstruction begins in the South
1867 The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad began passenger service; the first in Grand Rapids
1867 Dating trees by their annual rings begins
1868 The Sweets Hotel was built in Grand Rapids; the Amway Grand Hotel sits at this location today
1869 The Central Pacific RR meets the Union Pacific RR in Promontary, Utah
1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association
1870 The 15th Amendment passes--black men can vote
1871 The Chicago fire kills 300 and leaves 90,000 homeless; but not the largest fire of 1871. On the same day the Peshtigo Fire fanned its flames; taking between 1,200 and 2,400 lives in WI and MI. 1,875 square miles (1.2 million acres) burned.
1872 Colfax Massacre -- over 150 blacks killed because they attempted to maintain US citizenship rights
1875 The Black Hills War begins
1876 The Battle of Little Bighorn -- another aggressive push to exterminate indigenous people
1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone -- Antonio Meucci’s 1854 invention of the “telettrofono”
1876 Grand Rapids was nicknamed “Furniture City” after a very successful exposition in Philadelphia
1877 The Republican Party ends Reconstruction
1877 Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (Chief Jospeh) refused forced reservation life and leads his people away -- only to be hunted down by the US Army
1877 The first nationwide strike stops trains across the country
1877 Winfield Scott Gerrish opens the 7.1-mile-long Lake George and Muskegon River Railroad in Clare County; Gerrish moves 20 million board feet of logs to the Muskegon River (Michigan’s first logging railroad). Michigan will be cleared of its virgin white pine within the next 20 years.
1878 Louis Pasteur publishes his paper on “pasteurization”
1878 Fred Harvey enters the restaurant business in Florence, Kansas -- America's appetite is forever changed.
1879 Thomas Alva Edison invents the electric light
1881 Booker T. Washington founds Tuskegee in Alabama
1881 Great Forest Fire of 1881 and the Huron Fire, killed 282 people in Sanilac, Lapeer, Tuscola and Huron counties. The damage estimate was $2,347,000 in 1881, equivalent to $59,516,683 when adjusted for inflation.
1886 The Statue of Liberty is dedicated
1886 Aquinas College begins in Grand Rapids
1895 Lumiére Brothers introduce motion pictures
1895 Guglielmo Marconi sends the first radio signals
1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson--Supreme Court rules segregation is legal; Jim Crow laws are born
1896 Jennie F. Clauson is 40 years old
1890 The slaughter at Wounded Knee, South Dakota; the end to Native resistance
1890 Jacob Riis publishes "How the Other Half Lives" about the Five Points neighborhood. Ushers in the primacy of "urban renewal"
1893 Engine 999 of the New York Central RR was the fastest machine on earth at 112mph
1898 The Spanish-American War
1900 Grand Rapids population: 87,565
1900 The Galveston Flood -- the hurricane kills 8,000
1903 The Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1903 President Roosevelt sets aside land for future use; the beginning of the National Park system
1905 The first Braille dictionary is compiled in Grand Rapids by Roberta Griffith
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 Upton Sinclair publishes "The Jungle" about the corruption and uncleanliness of the meat packing industry. Americans begin to think about how and where their food comes from.
1907 Picasso introduces cubism with Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
1912 Peter M. Wege develops cost effective ways to bend sheet metal; his business becomes Steelcase
1913 Henry Ford develops the first moving assembly line
1913 Italian Hall Massacre. Seventy-three men, women, and children, mostly striking mine workers and their families, were crushed to death when someone falsely yelled "fire" at a crowded Christmas party.
1913 The US organizes the Department of Labor to protect workers
1913 The Federal Reserve System is created
1914 The Great War begins in Europe
1916 Jennie F. Clauson< is 60 years old
1917 The U.S. enters The Great War
1917 Vladmir Lenin leads The Bolshevik Revolution
1918 The Great War ends
1918 Global Spanish Flu epidemic
1920 19th Amendment to the Constitution granted the right for women to vote
1923 Posey War in Utah between Ute and Paiute against Mormon colonists -- the ending of the “native extermination” wars
1923 Rosewood Masssacre -- a racially motivated massacre of black people and destruction of a black town
1925 Grand Rapids population: 163,500
1926 Route 66 "The Mother Road" is officially opened on November 11
1927 The Great Mississippi River flood -- killing 246 and displacing 600,000 persons
1927 Philo Farnsworth demonstrates a working model of the television
1927 Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris
1928 Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1928 Walt Disney introduces Mickey Mouse
1929 The Great Depression begins
1933 FDR launches The New Deal
1935 The Nuremburg Laws are passed in NSDAP Germany
1935 UAW organized
1938 The Fair Labor Standards Act establishes minimum wage
1938 Orson Welles reads War of the Worlds over the air
1939 NSDAP Germany thrusts Europe into the Second World War
1939 The Wizard of Oz thrills theater patrons
1941 Japan strikes Pearl Harbor, the U.S. enters World War II
1942 The “Final Solution” officially sanctioned at the Wannsee Conference
1943 Detroit Race Riot
1945 The U.S. uses the first atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. World War II is over
1946 The United Nations begin; Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech launches the Cold War
1947 Jackie Robinson is signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers
1950 The Korean War begins
1950 Charles Schulz introduces Peanuts
1950 Jennie F. Clauson dies at 94 years old
a roll of film shot on August 14th of 2010.
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This song brings an atmospheric, and cinematic feel that would compliment a suspenseful action scene in a Science-Fiction film [Example: The Matrix Reloaded]. It would also provide a menacing excitement to a dance floor such as 1015 Folsom in San Francisco, California [A well known Electronic Dance Music Nightclub]. If rhythm runs in your blood, then these infectious sounds will be much appreciated by your eardrums!
A Michael Martinez Official Music Video!
Living life without fear!
-The Notorious BIG
I choose to live my life outside my comfort zone.
SoUnD WaVeS-
What you think, you become.
What you feel, you attract.
What you imagine, you create.
-Buddha
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Dreds Tottenham 19th January 2014. .
good day over Tottenham painted with Iben. Dyelk & Freehand. just a shame couldn't get a great photo with the sun behind us.. shouts to dyelk for this photo & Akroe and cave2 both missing in action today..
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This song brings an atmospheric, and cinematic feel that would compliment a suspenseful action scene in a Science-Fiction film [Example: The Matrix Reloaded]. It would also provide a menacing excitement to a dance floor such as 1015 Folsom in San Francisco, California [A well-known Electronic Dance Music Nightclub]. If rhythm runs in your blood, then these infectious sounds will be much appreciated by your eardrums!
Under the name SoUnD WaVeS, Los Angeles native Michael Martinez remixes art and imagination to rhythmically infuse his musical notes; generating passion along with menacing excitement to his luscious beats. Let him help you escape your reality!
A Michael Martinez Official Music Video!
Living life without fear!
-The Notorious BIG
I choose to live my life outside my comfort zone.
SoUnD WaVeS-
What you think, you become.
What you imagine, you create.
-Buddha
Follow on Spotify:
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Listen on Apple Music:
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Available on all online major streaming sites!
Official homepage: soundwavesofficial.wixsite.com/lusciousbeats
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(1858) John S. Rock, “I Will Sink or Swim with My Race”
Schoolteacher, dentist, physician, lawyer, graduate of the American Medical College in Philadelphia, member of the Massachusetts bar, proficient in Greek and Latin.
Dr. John S. Rock was unequivocally one of the most distinguished African American leaders to emerge in the United States during the antebellum era. On March 5, 1858, Dr. Rock delivered a speech at Boston’s Fanueil Hall as part of the annual Crispus Attucks Day observance organized by Boston's black abolitionists in response to the Dred Scott decision.
Rock shared the platform with William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Theodore Parker. Three years before the outbreak of the Civil War, Dr. Rock correctly predicted that African Americans were destined to play an important role in the impending military conflict over slavery. His speech appears below.
Ladies and Gentlemen: You will not expect a lengthened speech from me to-night. My health is too poor to allow me to indulge much in speechmaking. But I have not been able to resist the temptation to unite with you in this demonstration of respect for some of my noble but misguided ancestors.
White Americans have taken great pains to try to prove that we are cowards. We are often insulted with the assertion, that if we had had the courage of the Indians or the white man, we would never have submitted to be slaves. I ask if Indians and white men have never been slaves? The white man tested the Indian's courage here when he had his organized armies, his battlegrounds, his places of retreat, with everything to hope for and everything to lose. The position of the African slave has been very different. Seized a prisoner of war, unarmed, bound hand and foot, and conveyed to a distant country among what to him were worse than cannibals; brutally beaten, halfstarved, closely watched by armed men, with no means of knowing their own strength or the strength of their enemies, with no weapons, and without a probability of success. But if the white man will take the trouble to fight the black man in Africa or in Hayti, and fight him as fair as the black man will fight him there—if the black man does not come off victor, I am deceived in his prowess. But, take a man, armed or unarmed, from his home, his country, or his friends, and place him among savages, and who is he that would not make good his retreat? "Discretion is the better part of valor," but for a man to resist where he knows it will destroy him, shows more fool-hardiness than courage. There have been many Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Americans enslaved in Africa, but I have never heard that they successfully resisted any government. They always resort to running indispensables. The courage of the Anglo-Saxon is best illustrated in his treatment of the negro. A score or two of them can pounce upon a poor negro, tie and beat him, and then call him a coward because he submits. Many of their most brilliant victories have been achieved in the same manner. But the greatest battles which they have fought have been upon paper. We can easily account for this; their trumpeter is dead. He died when they used to be exposed for sale in the Roman market, about the time that Cicero cautioned his friend Atticus not to buy them, on account of their stupidity. A little more than half a century ago, this race, in connection with their Celtic neighbors, who have long been considered (by themselves, of course,) as the bravest soldiers in the world, so far forgot themselves as to attack a few cowardly, stupid negro slaves, who, according to their accounts, had not sense enough to go to bed. And what was the result? Why, sir, the negroes drove them out from the island like so many sheep, and they have never dared to show their faces, except with hat in hand.
Our true and tried friend, Rev. Theodore Parker said, in his speech at the State House, a few weeks since, that "the stroke of the axe would have settled the question long ago, but the black man would not strike." Mr. Parker makes a very low estimate of the courage of his race, if he means that one, two or three millions of those ignorant and cowardly black slaves could, without means, have brought to their knees five, ten, or twenty millions of intelligent brave white men, backed up by a rich oligarchy. But I know of no one who is more familiar with the true character of the Anglo-Saxon race than Mr. Parker. I will not dispute this point with him, but I will thank him or any one else to tell us how it could have been done. His remark calls to my mind the day which is to come, when one shall chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight. But when he says that "the black man would not strike," I am prepared to say that he does us great injustice. The black man is not a coward. The history of the bloody struggles for freedom in Hayti, in which the blacks whipped the French and the English, and gained their independence, in spite of the perfidy of that villainous First Consul, will be a lasting refutation of the malicious aspersions of our enemies. The history of the struggles for the liberty of the U.S. ought to silence every American calumniator. I have learned that even so late as the Texan war, a number of black men were found silly enough to offer themselves as living sacrifices for our country's shame. A gentleman who delivered a lecture before the New York Legislature, a few years since, whose name I do not now remember, but whose language I give with some precision, said, "In the Revolution, colored soldiers fought side by side with you in your struggles for liberty, and there is not a battle-field from Maine to Georgia that has not been crimsoned with their blood, and whitened with their bones." In 1814, a bill passed the Legislature of New York, accepting the services of 2000 colored volunteers. Many black men served under Com. McDonough when he conquered on lake Champlain. Many were in the battles of Plattsburgh and Sackett's Harbor, and General Jackson called out colored troops from Louisiana and Alabama, and in a solemn proclamation attested to their fidelity and courage.
The white man contradicts himself who says, that if he were in our situation, he would throw off the yoke. Thirty millions of white men of this proud Caucasian race are at this moment held as slaves, and bought and sold with horses and cattle. The iron heel of oppression grinds the masses of all the European races to the dust. They suffer every kind of oppression, and no one dares to open his mouth to protest against it. Even in the Southern portion of this boasted land of liberty, no white man dares advocate so much of the Declaration of Independence as declares that "all men are created free and equal, and have an inalienable right to life, liberty,"
White men have no room to taunt us with tamely submitting. If they were black men they would work wonders; but, as white men, they can do nothing. "O, Consistency, thou art a jewel!"
Now, it would not be surprising if the brutal treatment which we have received for the past two centuries should have crushed our spirits. But this is not the case. Nothing but a superior force keeps us down. And when I see the slaves rising up by hundreds annually, in the majesty of human nature, bidding defiance to every slave code and its penalties, making the issue Canada or death, and that too while they are closely watched by paid men armed with pistols, clubs and bowie-knives, with the army and navy of this great Model Republic arrayed against them, I am disposed to ask if the charge of cowardice does not come with an ill-grace.
But some men are so steeped in folly and imbecility; so lost to all feelings of their own littleness; so destitute of principle, and so regardless of humanity, that they dare attempt to destroy everything which exists in opposition to their interests or opinions which their narrow comprehensions cannot grasp.
We ought not to come here simply to honor those brave men who shed their blood for freedom, or to protest against the Dred Scott decision, but to take counsel of each other, and to enter into new vows of duty. Our fathers fought nobly for freedom, but they were not victorious. They fought for liberty, but they got slavery. The white man was benefitted, but the black man was injured. I do not envy the white American the little liberty which he enjoys. It is his right, and he ought to have it. I wish him success, though I do not think he deserves it. But I would have all men free. We have had much sad experience in this country, and it would be strange indeed if we do not profit by some of the lessons which we have so dearly paid for. Sooner or later, the clashing of arms will be heard in this country, and the black man's services will be needed: 150,000 freemen capable of bearing arms, and not all cowards and fools, and three quarters of a million of slaves, wild with the enthusiasm caused by the dawn of the glorious opportunity of being able to strike a genuine blow for freedom, will be a power which white men will be "bound to respect." Will the blacks fight? Of course they will. The black man will never be neutral. He could not if he would, and he would not if he could. Will he fight for this country, right or wrong? This the common sense of every one answers; and when the time comes, and come it will, the black man will give an intelligent answer. Judge Taney may outlaw us; Caleb Cushing may show the depravity of his heart by abusing us; and this wicked government may oppress us; but the black man will live when Judge Taney, Caleb Cushing and this wicked government are no more. White men may despise, ridicule, slander and abuse us; they may seek as they always have done to divide us, and make us feel degraded; but no man shall cause me to turn my back upon my race. With it I will sink or swim.
The prejudice which some white men have, or affect to have, against my color gives me no pain. If any man does not fancy my color, that is his business, and I shall not meddle with it. I shall give myself no trouble because he lacks good taste. If he judges my intellectual capacity by my color, he certainly cannot expect much profundity, for it is only skin deep, and is really of no very great importance to any one but myself. I will not deny that I admire the talents and noble characters of many white men. But I cannot say that I am particularly pleased with their physical appearance. If old mother nature had held out as well as she commenced, we should, probably, have had fewer varieties in the races. When I contrast the fine tough muscular system, the beautiful, rich color, the full broad features, and the gracefully frizzled hair of the negro, with the delicate physical organization, wan color, sharp features and lank hair of the Caucasian, I am inclined to believe that when the white man was created, nature was pretty well exhausted-but determined to keep up appearances, she pinched up his features, and did the best she could under the circumstances. (Great laughter.)
I would have you understand, that I not only love my race, but am pleased with my color; and while many colored persons may feel degraded by being called negroes, and wish to be classed among other races more favored, I shall feel it my duty, my pleasure and my pride, to concentrate my feeble efforts in elevating to a fair position a race to which I am especially identified by feelings and by blood.
My friends, we can never become elevated until we are true to ourselves. We can come here and make brilliant speeches, but our field of duty is elsewhere. Let us go to work—each man in his place, determined to do what he can for himself and his race. Let us try to carry out some of the resolutions which we have made, and are so fond of making. If we do this, friends will spring up in every quarter, and where we least expect them. But we must not rely on them. They cannot elevate us. Whenever the colored man is elevated, it will be by his own exertions. Our friends can do what many of them are nobly doing, assist us to remove the obstacles which prevent our elevation, and stimulate the worthy to persevere. The colored man who, by dint of perseverance and industry, educates and elevates himself, prepares the way for others, gives character to the race, and hastens the day of general emancipation. While the negro who hangs around the corners of the streets, or lives in the grog-shops or by gambling, or who has no higher ambition than to serve, is by his vocation forging fetters for the slave, and is "to all intents and purposes" a curse to his race. It is true, considering the circumstances under which we have been placed by our white neighbors, we have a right to ask them not only to cease to oppress us, but to give us that encourage-ment which our talents and industry may merit. When this is done, they will see our minds expand, and our pockets filled with rocks. How very few colored men are encouraged in their trades or business! Our young men see this, and become disheartened. In this country, where money is the great sympathetic nerve which ramifies society, and has a ganglia in every man's pocket, a man is respected in proportion to his success in business. When the avenues to wealth are opened to us, we will then become educated and wealthy, and then the roughest looking colored man that you ever saw, or ever will see, will be pleasanter than the harmonies of Orpheus, and black will be a very pretty color. It will make our jargon, wit—our words, oracles; flattery will then take the place of slander, and you will find no prejudice in the Yankee whatever. We do not expect to occupy a much better position than we now do, until we shall have our educated and wealthy men, who can wield a power that cannot be misunderstood. Then, and not till then, will the tongue of slander be silenced, and the lip of prejudice sealed. Then, and not till then, will we be able to enjoy true equality, which can exist only among peers.
Sources:
Liberator, March 12, 1858.
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James C. Johnson was an interesting man. He pushed his wheelbarrow from event to event on the Princeton (New Jersey) campus selling fruit to students to earn a living. He bantered with them and the students loved him for it. After his death, his grave remained unmarked until the students led an effort to raise enough money to provide a gravestone at Princeton Cemetery.
Of course, the story didn't begin there.
In 1843, James Collins, as he was known then, ran away from his slave owner in Maryland and moved to Princeton. He lived there for several years before being discovered and put on trial to be returned to his owner, Philip Wallis. The jury found in favor of Mr. Wallis and James was ready to return to servitude. Miraculously, Miss Theodoric Provost, a relative of a President of Princeton, paid the sum of $550. that night to obtain James' freedom.
James spent several years successfully paying off his debt. When he became old and infirm, the students of Princeton helped raise money for his living expenses, thus aiding him in life as they did after his death.
For more information on the tragedy of fugitive slaves please check out the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision.