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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, Woman's rights. (search)
a; and let facts — not theories — settle my capacity, and therefore my sphere. We are not here to-night to assert that woman will enter the lists and conquer; that she will certainly achieve all that man has achieved; but this we say, Clear the lists, and let her try. Some reply, It will be a great injury to feminine delicacy and refinement for woman to mingle in business and politics. I am not careful to answer this objection. Of all such objections, on this and kindred subjects, Mrs. President, I love to dispose in some such way as this: The broadest and most far-sighted intellect is utterly unable to foresee the ultimate consequences of any great social change. Ask yourself, on all such occasions, if there be any element of right and wrong in the question, any principle of clear natural justice that turns the scale. If so, take your part with the perfect and abstract right, and trust God to see that it shall prove the expedient. The questions, then, for me, on this subject
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 16 (search)
nate-House was in ruins, and the fire ceased. Be quiet, Mr. Garrison, said 1830. Don't you see our six-penny Colonization Society, and our old-fashioned pails of church resolves, nicely copied and laid away in vestries? See how we'll put out this fire of slavery. But it burned on fiercer, fiercer. ( What shall we do now? asked startled Whiggery. Keep the new States free, abolish slavery in the District, shut the door against Texas. Too much, said Whiggery; we are busy now making Webster President, and proving that Mr. Everett never had an antislavery idea. But the flames roll on. Republicanism proposes to blow up a street or two. No, no; nothing but to blow up the Senate-House will do; and soon frightened Hamburg will cry, Mynherr Garrison, Mynherr Garrison, save us on your own terms! [Loud applause.] You perceive my hope of freedom rests on these rocks: 1st, mechanical progress. First man walked, dug the earth with his hands, ate what he could pick up; then he subdues t