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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, Publisher's Advertisement. (search)
Publisher's Advertisement. These Speeches and Lectures have been collected into a volume at the earnest and repeated requests of the personal friends and the followers of Mr. Phillips. In committing them to the Publisher, he wrote:-- I send you about one half of my speeches which have been reported during the last ten years. Put them into a volume, if you think it worth while. Four or five of them ( Idols, The election, Mobs and education, Disunion, Progress, ) were delivered in shich takes its name from my illustrious friend, William Lloyd Garrison. The only liberty the Publisher has taken with these materials has been to reinsert the expressions of approbation and disapprobation on the part of the audience, which Mr. Phillips had erased, and to add one or two notes from the newspapers of the day. This was done because they were deemed a part of the antislavery history of the times, and interesting, therefore, to every one who shall read this book,--not now only, bu
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, Biographical sketch of Wendell Phillips. (search)
Biographical sketch of Wendell Phillips. Universal liberty was the inheritance of Wendell Phily linked with the cause of emancipation? Wendell Phillips, at the age of twenty-four, found himselfllips is born. At the age of twenty-six, Mr. Phillips found himself a leader among the devotees oing of the war between the States, in 1861, Mr. Phillips advocated disunion as the only road to abol years of his life had been devoted. But Mr. Phillips could not remain idle. Restless energy was prohibitionists of Massachusetts nominated Mr. Phillips for governor of his native State. In the eed ballots. It could be truthfully said of Mr. Phillips, that least of all was he an office-seeker.posed to the principles which he espoused. Mr. Phillips left no complete collection of his works. t, had he done so, he would not have been Wendell Phillips. For him it was an opportunity, and in hath was angina pectoris. No eulogy of Wendell Phillips is required. A man whose name is stamped[5 more...]
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, The murder of Lovejoy. (search)
ch of the Attorney-General produced great excitement throughout the Hall. Wendell Phillips, Esq., who had not expected to take part in the meeting, rose to reply. he assembly which sympathized with Mr. Austin now became so boisterous, that Mr. Phillips had difficulty for a while in getting the attention of the audience Mr.o one could be heard. At length G. Bond, Esq., and Hon. W. Sturgis came to Mr. Phillips's side at th front of the platform. They were met with cries of Phillips orPhillips or nobody, Make him take back recreant, He sha'n't go on till he takes it back. When it was understood they meant to sustain, not to interrupt, Mr. Phillips, Mr. SturMr. Phillips, Mr. Sturgis was listened to, and said: I did not come here to take any part in this discussion, nor do I intend to; but I do entreat you, fellow-citizens, by everything you hussion,--that you listen to every man who address you in a decorous manner. Mr. Phillips resumed.] Fellow-citizens, I cannot take back my words. Surely the Attor
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, Woman's rights. (search)
Woman's rights. This speech was made at a Convention held at Worcester, on the 15th and 16th of October, 1851, upon the following resolutions, which were offered by Mr. Phillips:-- 1. Resolved, That, while we would not undervalue other methods, the right of suffrage for women is, in our opinion, the corner-stone of this enterprise, since we do not seek to protect woman, but rather to place her in a position to protect herself. 2. Resolved, That it will be woman's fault if, the ballot once in her hand, all the barbarous, demoralizing, and unequal laws relating to marriage and property do not speedily vanish from the statute-book; and while we acknowledge that the hope of a share in the higher professions and profitable employments of society is one of the strongest motives to intellectual culture, we know, also, that an interest in political questions is an equally powerful stimulus; and we see, beside, that we do our best to insure education to an individual, when we put
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 6 (search)
Acorn. [Renewed cheering.] [At this point a voice called out, Three cheers for John H. Pearson! after what had been said from the platform, such a call was not likely to be very warmly responded to; but one or two voices were raised, and Mr. Phillips continued.] Yes, it is fitting that the cheer should be a poor one, when, in the presence of that merchant [pointing to the portrait of John Hancock], of that merchant who led the noblest movement for civil liberty ever made on this side thome to Massachusetts, and lobbied so efficiently as to secure the election of Charles Sumner to the Senate of the United States. [Loud cheers.] [A voice: Three cheers for Charles Sumner. Overwhelming applause. Three cheers for Webster. Mr. Phillips continued:--] Faintly given, those last; but I do not much care, Mr. Chairman, which way the balance of cheers goes in respect to the gentleman whose name has just been mentioned [Mr. Webster]. It is said, you know, that when Washington sto
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 9 (search)
pecimen of Massachusetts humanity and judicial decorum? It was necessary some one should see Burns to arrange for his having counsel. The United States Marshal refused us admission to the cell. On Friday I went to Mr. Loring at Cambridge, where he was Law Lecturer in Harvard College, and asked him for an order directing the Marshal to allow me to see the prisoner. He sits down and writes a letter, authorizing me to cross that barrier and see Burns; and as he hands it to me, he says: Mr. Phillips, the case is so clear, that I do not think you will be justified in placing any obstacles in the way of this man's going back, as he probably will !! What right had he to think Burns would go back? He had heard only one witness; yet he says, The case is so clear, that I do not think you will be justified in placing any obstacles in the way of this man's going back, as he probably will!!! Suppose, Mr. Chairman, that, in the case of Dr. Webster, after he had been indicted, but before h
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 12 (search)
m it, still gives it his countenance; that a clergyman — the chief apostle of whose faith declared he would eat no meat while the world stood, if so doing made his brother to offend-still throws that stumbling-block in the way of his pupils. But I arraign the Chief Justice of Massachusetts, and the President of Harvard University, because, when the rum interest of the State is marshalling its strength to beat down a good and constitutional law by gross, open, and avowed disobedience, they are found lending their names, character, and office to give respectability to the grog-shop whose wealth enables it to lead that dishonorable and disloyal effort. As a citizen, I claim that you disgraced your places, if not yourselves; and I hope the day will come when such insult by such high officers to any statute of the Commonwealth, much more to one representing its highest moral purpose, will be deemed cause enough to impeach the one and remove the other. Wendell Phillips August 1, 185
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
in his study and writes the history of filibusters, respectable only because they died three hundred years ago He did not know that he was the mere annalist of the Walkers and Jefferson Davises of that age. [Applause.] [In this connection, Mr. Phillips referred to Bunyan and to Shakespeare, by way of illustrating his point that the literature which is of use is the literature that is not honored as such when it is written.] So it is with government. Government arrogates to itself that it muddle. Following Peel and Webster was a muddle; hence came the era of outside agitation,--and those too lazy to think for themselves at least took a fixed point for their political perspective,--Garrison or Charles Sumner, for instance. [Mr. Phillips continued by remarking that all the people had ever asked of government was, not to take a step ahead, not to originate anything, but only to Undo its mistakes, to take its foot from off its victim, take away its custom-houses, abolish its abs
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
Harper's Ferry. a lecture delivered at Brooklyn, N. Y., Tuesday evening, November 1, 1859. Mr. Phillips was advertised to speak on the lesson of the hour, in Henry Ward Beecher's Church. Hon. Thomas Corwin, with others, was on the platform. Ladies and gentlemen: Of course I do not expect — speaking from this platform, and to you — to say anything on the vital question of the hour which you have not already heard. But, when a great question divides the community, all men are called upon to vote, and I feel to-night that I am simply giving my vote. I am only saying ditto to what you hear from this platform day after day. And I would willingly have avoided, Ladies and Gentlemen, even at this last moment, borrowing this hour from you. I tried to do better by you. Like the Irishman in the story, I offered to hold the hat of Hon. Thomas Corwin of Ohio, [enthusiastic applause,] if he would only make a speech, and, I am sorry to say, he declines, most unaccountably, this generous of
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, Mobs and education. (search)
eting in Music Hall. It having been rumored for several days previous, that Mr. Phillips was likely to be mobbed and assaulted, a large detachment of police was in ahateful, is only a gang of slaves. At the conclusion of the exercises, Mr. Phillips's friends flocked upon the platform to congratulate him. After a while, Mr. Mr. Phillips left the platform, accompanied by several friends, who were joined, in the lower entry, by some twenty in number. As the party emerged from the building to ith the Abolitionists! Bite his head off! All up! &c., and surged toward Mr. Phillips, with the manifest purpose of preventing his egress. In this, however, theyd followed by an immense throng of people, many of them, however, friends of Mr. Phillips, and determined to protect him from injury. No demonstrations of violence, aces expressing wonder and curiosity. Arrived at his house in Essex Street, Mr. Phillips entered, with a few of his friends, when three cheers were given by some of
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