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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 9 (search)
er proceeded to try him. By accident, Mr. Richard H. Dana, Jr. had heard that such a trial was to be to examine the witness. After a short time, Mr. Dana rose, (he had no right to rise, technically s in his argument, alluding to the same scene, Mr. Dana says:-- Burns was arrested suddenly, on as before him a helpless man,--in the words of Mr. Dana, terrified, stupefied, intimidated, and beginso to speak, that prevents such an outrage as Mr. Dana's protest describes. Now, your petitioners agle witness, interrupted by the protests of Messrs. Dana and Ellis,--the mere disjecta membra of a tn the city what they intended to do;--while Messrs. Dana and Ellis, counsel for the prisoner, were as. I cannot speak to you, Mr. Thomas, unless Mr. Dana or Mr. Ellis is here. Call them, and then I t's counsel; on Friday, at nine o'clock, to Messrs. Dana and Ellis, and the world!! What a picturr hands the able arguments of Messrs. Ellis and Dana, as well as that remarkable Decision which Judg[1 more...]
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 16 (search)
n A. Andrew should have been Chief Justice. [Applause.] You remember they made the first William Pitt Earl of Chatham, and he went into eclipse in the House of Lords. Some one asked Chesterfield what had become of Pitt. He has had a fall up-stairs, was the answer. Governor Andrew or Judge Andrew sounds equally well. But I like the right man in the right place. The chief justiceship belongs to the party of progress. Their Sparta can point to many sons worthy of the place,--Sewall, Hoar, Dana, or we might have offered another laurel for the brow of our great Senator, were it only to show him that the profession he once honored still remembers her truant son. [Great applause.] The outgoing administration, which entailed that office on talents, however respectable, that belong to the party of resistance, placed itself by the side of Arnold selling West Point to the British! Such an appointment was the Parthian arrow of a traitor and a snob. Then we have Lincoln for President [a
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 19 (search)
the virtuous out of the covenant with death! Mr. Dana, in his recent speech, does not secede becaushis liberty by his own right hand. Mr. Richard H. Dana, Jr., says, in such a contest his sympathiwn race. The following is the paragraph in Mr. Dana's address referred to by Mr. Phillips :-- the white race, is to go down. Let me advise Mr. Dana to learn Christianity of this infidel, and Jud to the master, whether he be man or brute. Mr. Dana avows his full readiness to perform this legavirtues and one sin exactly make a saint, and Mr. Dana is too good a churchman to dispute with Arist. On the whole, I should rather be Seward than Dana; for perjury is the more gentlemanly vice, to ms rights and neighbor too. After all this, Mr. Dana objects to the Crittenden compromise. Somethnly condescend to indicate her preference? Mr. Dana is a man above the temptations of politics. how wide the gangrene of the Union spreads. Mr. Dana's speech was made, he says, in the shadow of [5 more...]