The gentleman to whom we shall now call attention is one of this class, and doubtless the first of his race in America.  The name of Frederick Douglass is well known throughout this country as well as America.  Born and brought up as a slave, he was deprived of a mother’s care and of early education.  Escaping when he was little more than twenty years of age, he was thrown upon his own resources in the free states, where prejudice against colour is but another name for slavery.  But during all this time he was educating himself as well as circumstances would admit.  Mr. Douglass commenced his career as a public speaker some ten years since, as an agent of the American or Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Societies.  He is tall and well made.  His vast and well-developed forehead announces the power of his intellect.  His voice is full and sonorous.  His attitude is dignified, and his gesticulation is full of noble simplicity.  He is a man of lofty reason, natural, and without pretension, always master of himself, brilliant in the art of exposing and of abstracting.  Few persons can handle a subject with which they are familiar better than Mr. Douglass.  There is a kind of eloquence issuing from the depth of the soul, as from a spring, rolling along its copious floods, sweeping all before it, overwhelming by its very force, carrying, upsetting, engulphing its adversaries, and more dazzling and more thundering than the bolt which leaps from crag to crag.  This is the eloquence of Frederick Douglass.  He is one of the greatest mimics of the age.  No man can put on a sweeter smile or a more sarcastic frown than he:  you cannot put him off his guard.  He is always in good humour.  Mr. Douglass possesses great dramatic powers; and had he taken up the sock and buskin, instead of becoming a lecturer, he would have made as fine a Coriolanus as ever trod the stage.

However, Mr. Douglass was not the first coloured man that became a lecturer, and thereby did service to the cause of his countrymen.  The earliest and most effective speaker from among the coloured race in America, was Charles Lennox Remond.  In point of eloquence, this gentleman is not inferior to either Wendell Phillips or Frederick Douglass.  Mr. Remond is of small stature, and neat figure, with a head well developed, but a remarkably thin face.  As an elocutionist, he is, without doubt, the first on the anti-slavery platform.  He has a good voice, a pleasing countenance, a prompt intelligence, and when speaking, is calculated to captivate and carry away an audience by the very force of his eloquence.  Born in the freest state of the Union, and of most respectable parents, he prides himself not a little on his birth and descent.  One can scarcely find fault with this, for, in the United States, the coloured man is deprived of the advantages which parentage gives to the white man.  Mr. Remond is a descendant of one of those coloured men who stood side by side with white men on the plains of Concord and Lexington,