The following was delivered by FREDERICK DOUGLASS as an address to the people of the United States at a Convention of Colored Men held in Louisville, Ky., September 24, 1883: FELLOW-CITIZENS: Charged with the responsibility and duty of doing what we may to advance the interest and promote the general welfare of a people lately enslaved, and who, though now free, still suffer many of the disadvantages and evils derived from their former condition, not the least among which is the low and unjust estimate entertained of their abilities and possibilities as men, and their value as citizens of the Republic; instructed by these people to make such representations and adopt such measures as in our…
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