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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 16 (search)
r childish eyes gazed with wonder at Maelzel's chess-player, and the pulse almost stopped when, with the pulling of wires and creaking of wheels, he moved a pawn, and said, Check! Our wiser fathers saw a man in the box. There was great noise at Chicago, much pulling of wires and creaking of wheels, then forth steps Abraham Lincoln. But John Brown was behind the curtain, and the cannon of March 4th will only echo the rifles at Harper's Ferry. Last year, we stood looking sadly at that gibbet ! [Laughter and applause.] At Washington, in February, he thought John Brown was misguided and desperate, and justly hung. He talks of social horrors and disunion, and irons his face out to portentous length and sadness. [Laughter.] But at Chicago, in September, John Brown, he says, was the only one man [when the Missouri Compromise was repealed] who hoped against the prevailing demoralization, and cheered and sustained me [Mr. Seward] through it! And at St. Paul, he snaps his fingers at
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 18 (search)
l in office the promises made in the canvass. Their motto is: The Chicago platform, every inch of it; not a hair's-breadth of the Territorien not likely to go beyond, even if he were able to keep, the whole Chicago platform. Accordingly, he said: I will give free rein to my naturon to a policy which I originate. He offers to postpone the whole Chicago platform, in order to save the Union,--though last October, at ChiChicago, he told us postponement never settles anything, whether it is a lawsuit or a national question; better be beat and try again than postppe understand clearly why we sever. They saw Mr. Seward paint, at Chicago, our utter demoralization, Church and State, government and peopleme, look at the picture of its effects which Mr. Seward painted at Chicago. Look at our history. Under it, 700,000 slaves have increased eech, this hour, throughout the North. Mr. Seward confessed, at Chicago, that neither free speech nor free suffrage existed in one half of
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 19 (search)
s? So they shut their eyes, as he does, on realities, and chopped excellent logic on forms. But at that moment, the Devil hovered over Charleston, with a handful of cotton-seed. [Applause.] Dropped into sea-island soil, and touched by the magic of Massachusetts brains, it poisoned the atmosphere of thirty States. That cotton fibre was a rod of empire such as Caesar never wielded. It fattened into obedience pulpit and rostrum, court, market-place, and college, and leashed New York and Chicago to its chair of state. Beware, Mr. Adams, he needs a long spoon who sups with the Devil. In the kaleidoscope of the future, no statesman eye can foresee the forms. God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice: that he guarantees shall be always expediency. Deviate one hair's-breadth,--grant but a dozen slaves,--only the tiniest seed of concession,--you know not how many and tall branches of mischief shall grow therefrom. That handful of cotton-seed has perpetuat
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 22 (search)
ed, he has gone into retirement behind Seward. The policy which prevails at Washington is to do nothing, and wait for events. I asked the lawyers of Illinois, who had practised law with Mr. Lincoln for twenty years, Is he a man of decision, is he a man who can say no? They all said: If you had gone to the Illinois bar, and selected the man least capable of saying no, it would have been Abraham Lincoln. He has no stiffness in him. I said to the bankers and the directors of railroads in Chicago, Is McClellan a man who can say no? and they said: Banks we had only a few months; we don't think much of him; but to every question you asked, he would say yes or no in sixty minutes. McClellan never answered a question while he was here. If there was one to be decided, he floated until events decided it. He was here months, and never decided a single question that came up in the management of the Illinois Central. These are the men we have put at the head of the Union, and for fourteen
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 26 (search)
he did not buy a thousand acres isolated in the Northwest; he bought a thousand acres with New Orleans for his port of entry and New York for his counting-house. And it was as much a part of the deed as if it had been so written. Now, if South Carolina can show that Illinois and New York have broken the deed, she has a right of revolution; that is, she has a right to reject it. But until she can show that they have broken the deed, she is a swindler. Illinois owns New Orleans as much as Chicago, in a national sense. So the negro who sat down and waited when Samuel Adams, who thought slavery a crime, and your Gouverneur Morris, who thought it a disgrace and a sin, said, Wait, the time will come when the constant waves of civilization or the armed right hand of the war power will strike off your fetters, and the slave sat down and waited. In 1819,--the Missouri Compromise,--when the time had come, as John Randolph said the time would come, when the master would run away from his