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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 21 (search)
our fleets fired salutes across New Orleans, Beauregard would have been ground to powder between the upper millstone of McClellan and the lower of a quarter-million of blacks rising to greet the Stars and Stripes. [Great cheering.] McClellan may drMcClellan may drill a better army,--more perfect soldiers. He will never marshal a stronger force than those grateful thousands. That is the way to save insurrection. He is an enemy to civil liberty, the worst enemy to his own land, who asks for such delay or peted, Christian Americans are not to wait for the will or the wisdom of a single man,--we are not to wait for Fremont or McClellan: the government is our dictator. It might do for Rome, a herd of beggars and soldiers, kept quiet only by the weight oin him to your side; you may anticipate the South; you may save twelve millions of customers. Delay it, let God grant McClellan victory, let God grant the Stars and Stripes over New Orleans, and it is too late. Jeff Davis will then summon that
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 22 (search)
to strike at slavery. I do not believe that McClellan himself is mad or idiotic enough to have avo on the other side of the Potomac can say of McClellan's cannon-ball, if he ever fires one, We kno troops upon Washington, first informing General McClellan of the proposed attack, and demanding ofishing slavery in the State of Virginia, but McClellan bullied him out of it. It is said, too,what as more than once made up his mind to remove McClellan, and Kentucky bullied him out of it. The mannce. When its readers begin to believe that McClellan is made of mud, it is a bright sign. Do notnd the directors of railroads in Chicago, Is McClellan a man who can say no? and they said: Banks d. I had a private letter from a captain in McClellan's army in the Peninsula, in which he said: WI do not believe that in his heart he trusts McClellan a whit more than I do, from fear of the Bord that this whole winter he never believed in McClellan's ability. That is the sore spot in the cha[6 more...]
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 26 (search)
negro saw a Quaker coat, his heart beat easy,--he knew he was safe. I think the Stars and Stripes can float lazily down and kiss the standard, all over the South, when a black face is in sight. But I am not speaking for the negro; I am not asking now for his rights; I am asking for the use of him. I want him for the future. We have to make over the State of South Carolina, and we are not sure there is a white man in it who is on our side. Do you remember that significant telegram of McClellan from Yorktown,--and it was only the repetition of a dozen telegrams that preceded it, substantially this:--To the Secretary of War: Sir, we have taken Yorktown; only one single white man in it. He does not think it necessary to say there were some thousands of negroes. Of course there were. They stayed where liberty was coming, and ideas, and civilization, and men who worked with their hands and their brains, as they themselves did. They recognized in the Yankee a brother mechanic. [La