W. O. Duvall to Frederick Douglass, September 28, 1851
Haiti, Sept. 28, 1851.
Friend Douglass:—I admire your leader in the last number of your paper, on the Christian affair.
"Cato, thou reasonest well!"
I'll venture the prediction, that the conduct of those truly noble colored people at Parker's will go further in compelling respect for their race, than anything that has occurred in their history, since the settlement of this country. Oh! that the whole posse attending Gorsuch, Ingraham, with his officers and marines, and those miscreant Maryland hellhounds that prowled about that hitherto peaceful district, armed with rifles, could have shared the same fate! Then would justice have been vindicated in the home of her friends. But, glorious men! Well have you shown "the wealth of your pasture." You have reared for yourselves an enduring monument in the heart of every true lover of liberty, and should this bastard republic succeed in its foul attempt in fastening upon your worthy conduct the crime of treason, heed it not, knowing full well that WHOEVER DIES FOR LIBERTY, LIVES FOREVER.
Yours for the right,
W. O. DuvallDuvall, William O.
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