m, shall we not?

It only remains that we pass a resolution of thanks to Frederick
Douglass, the slave that was, the man that is! He that was covered with
chains, and that is now being covered with glory, and whom we will send
back a gentleman.

LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER. [11]. To My Old Master, Thomas Auld

SIR--The long and intimate, though by no means friendly, relation which
unhappily subsisted between you and myself, leads me to hope that you
will easily account for the great liberty which I now take in addressing
you in this open and public manner. The same fact may remove any
disagreeable surprise which you may experience on again finding your
name coupled with mine, in any other way than in an advertisement,
accurately describing my person, and offering a large sum for my arrest.
In thus dragging you again before the public, I am aware that I shall
subject myself to no inconsiderable amount of censure. I shall probably
be charged with an unwarrantable, if not a wanton and reckless disregard
of the rights and properties of private life. There are those north as
well as south who entertain a much higher respect for rights which are
merely conventional, than they do for rights which are personal and
essential. Not a few there are in our country, who, while they have no
scruples against robbing the laborer of the hard earned results of his
patient industry, will be shocked by the extremely indelicate manner of
bringing your name before the public. Believing this to be the case, and
wishing to meet every reasonable or plausible objection to my conduct,
I will frankly state the ground upon which I justfy(sic) myself in this
instance, as well as on former occasions when I have thought proper to
mention your name in public. All will agree that a man guilty of theft,
robbery, or murder, has forfeited the right to concealment and private
life; that the community have a right to subject such persons to the
most complete exposure. However much they may desire retirement, and
aim to conceal themselves and their movements from the popular gaze,
the public have a right to ferret them out, and bring their conduct
before{331} the proper tribunals of the country for investigation. Sir,
you will undoubtedly make the proper application of these generally
admitted principles, and will easily see the light in which you are
regarded by me; I will not therefore manifest ill temper, by calling you
hard names. I know you to be a