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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
to forgive and forget in these generous and charitable days! No, if he wants an illustration, with due humility, I can give the orator a great deal better one. Sidney Smith had a brother as witty as himself, and a great hater of O'Connell. Bobus Smith (for so they called him) had one day marshalled O'Connell's faults at a dinner-talk, when his opponent flung back a glowing record of the great Irishman's virtues. Smith looked down a moment. Well, such a man,--such a mixture; the only way wSmith looked down a moment. Well, such a man,--such a mixture; the only way would be to hang him first, and then erect a statue to him under the gallows. A disputed statue rising out of a sea of angry contempt, half-hearted admiration, and apologetic eulogy, reminds me of the Frenchman tottering up, at eighty years old, to vote for Louis Bonaparte. Why, he is a scoundrel, said Victor Hugo. True,--very true,--but he is a necessary scoundrel. Ah, as the Greek said, many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. These Cambridge Professors and fair-weather