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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Letter to George Thompson (1839 ). (search)
Letter to George Thompson (1839).
This letter was written in England in the summer of 1809, and read by Mr. Thompson at the Anniversary of the Glasgow Emancipation Society in that year.
My dear Thompson,--I am very sorry to say no to your pressing request, but I cannot come to Glasgow; duty takes me elsewhere.
My heart will be with you though, on the 1st of August, and I need not say how much pleasure it would give me to meet, on that day especially, the men to whom my country owes so much, and on the spot dear to every American Abolitionist as the scene of your triumphant refutation and stern rebuke of Breckinridge.
I do not think any of you can conceive the feelings with which an American treads such scenes.
You cannot realize the debt of gratitude he feels to be due, and is eager to pay to those who have spoken in behalf of humanity, and whose voices have come to him across the water.
The vale of Leven, Exeter Hall, Glasgow, and Birmingham are consecrated spots,--the la
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Capital punishment (1855 ) (search)
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The lost arts (1838 ). (search)
The lost arts (1838).
No lecture in the American lyceum ever met with a wider or more (enthusiastic welcome than this.
It was first delivered in the winter of 1838-39. Mr. Phillips had spoken before this upon subjects taken :from chemistry and physics, and on discoveries and inventions in the field of mechanics.
Called suddenly to address a certain audience, --he thought there might be a charm in a familiar resume of those arts which the ancients carried to a perfection still unrivalled.
Hastily outlined in a series of notes, it was an almost impromptu delivery.
But so great was the interest which it excited, that Mr. Phillips was --called to repeat it over two thousand times.
About twenty years ago Mr. Phillips was engaged to deliver the lecture in the Redpath lyceum.
A stenographer was employed to make a verbatim report; it was carefully written out in full, was elegantly bound, and then presented to its author.
Mr. Phillips expressed himself exceedingly grateful to hi