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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The Bible and the Church (1850). (search)
ibaldry, sensuality, and blasphemy of that day, it presents to us now seriousness, philanthropy, and religion. When Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and a judgment to come, Felix trembled. When infidelity reasons of seriousness, philanthropy, and religion, the Felix of the day has a right to tremble. But how blind the writer must be! As if the Church of God was a place, and not a power! Why, when the news of this great experiment in the West Indies came to this country, as your preacher tells it, the infidels asked, Is the man temperate? Does he love his brother and not shed his blood? Does he respect his wife? Does he teach his children? and the Church asked, Does he make as much rum as he did before? Are there as many hogsheads of sugar exported from Jamaica? Show me the statistics! God said, Justice! When I founded the universe, I saw to it that right should be profitable. Infidelity said, Amen! I cannot see, but I believe. The Church said, Prove it!
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The scholar in a republic (1881). (search)
ilization, bids us rejoice when the tyrant grows pale and the slave rebellious. We cannot but pity the suffering of any human being, however richly deserved; but such pity must not confuse our moral sense. Humanity gains. Chatham rejoiced when our fathers rebelled. For every single reason they alleged, Russia counts a hundred, each one ten times bitterer than any Hancock or Adams could give. Sam Johnson's standing toast in Oxford port was, Success to the first insurrection of slaves in Jamaica, --a sentiment Southey echoed. Eschew cant, said that old moralist. But of all the cants that are canted in this canting world, though the cant of piety may be the worst, the cant of Americans bewailing Russian Nihilism is the most disgusting. I know what reform needs, and all it needs, in a land where discussion is free, the press untrammelled, and where public halls protect debate. There, as Emerson says, What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticul