New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-12-26
f3ritisil Bipartisan.
LECTURE OF WENDELL PHILLIPS BEFORE THE
BOSTON LYCEUM.


Correspondence Of The Tribune
BosToN Dec. d. 1912.
The Lecture before the Boston Lyceum on
Thursday evening, was delivered by WENDELL
PHILLIPS, Esq, who ranks among the very best OF
our public speakers. His subject was British
Chartism; and so interesting and valuable in
my estimation, were his remarks, that am in-
duced to present your readers with an abstract.
NV subject, said Mr.. P. in commencing, is the
Cbar,ist of Great Britain stepped in poverty to
the very lips, uneducsted, the scorn of his coun-
trymen, most of whom, in the proud conscious
ness of strength, heed not, stealing over the trou
bled mirror of the present. the shadow of the
coming despotism ;-the Chartist, traapled under
foot by the wealth Of the Island princes; his ap-
peas, his suierings, his rights, alike forgotten in
the tumult of military prowess, or the dazzling ar
ray of Luxury suspected by the middle classes
as little better than plunderer sttery disdainea
by the higher ranks, and despicable in his want of
resources; often falling into the hands of dena-
gogues, who lead only to betray, or falling prey
to his own passions, from whose excuses he wakes
only to find himself more helpless than ever;-
the poor Chartist, almost paupcr, Battling
against an aristocracy, on whose mercy he is de-
pendent for the scanty means of subsistence. The
Chartist, said Mr. P. is the spiritual child of the
Puri.ans, who has caught from their sepulchres
the unquenched torch of civil liberty, to bear it
onward amidst the dark abuses CT the old world {:
and yet at the mention of his name American lips
curl in scorn, and the American press pours upon
him the hot walls of its contempt He is yet to
receive almost the first word of sympathy and en-.
csuragement from this side of the Atlantic; and
although his soul was kindled at the beams of tina,
star which shot UP in our horizon, he finds in al
mos, every American who visits Great Britain a
bitter and cantemptuous foe. Kings look a. him
as a disorganizer, while Republicans despise him
as bastard brother. He is bearing the cross Of
Truth with no |" God bless you" from the lips Of
those in whose fathers steps he is treading. Hi.
only Strengths in the omnipotence ofhis principles
aud although he is hopeless of triumph il his owr
day. his faith strong that his children will unite
in the glad shout which is yet to hail the advent
of Liberty to the ocean isles.
1t is to the condition and prospects of such i
party, said Mr. P. that l wish to call your a,ten
ton in the brief hour allotted me this evening
and les. you should consider such theme unwor
Thy even Of this slight notice, let me remind 20,
that il is often wise question the current opin
IONS OF men and things; that the martyrs and her
cues OF one age are sure to be the saints and he
oes OF the next; and that to the shrincs of those
T " the fathers treated with exile and faeso,
.u' SOFAS are proud TO go in pilgrimage. The ira
. AIsseeuoers, as he pauses before tho NOM,
iheus u panse al Santa Croce, that. four hnndr
years sge' Florence thrust him from her vol. =
sooen' Out az last the very children Of his
tors cried shame on their f,,ber. n.s tefsecu
P'ieo osiose e 'ue world monument TO him whoss
1ne.1 isthst q aea followed with conhsca1ioT
and the sword Florence sued with all the sln
ausnce OF hsr Angelo and her Medici for rho iao
acy of his boaes, and History, scsln. .ue r .ss
qusnce and Poetry, buy the rich reward .s s E.o
his eulogists! 0''A's
Puritan how the wits of Charles II ,;a..
their mouths with rich wine, after u,,eraa s
disgusting name! little thinking thar Liber,
would crown the despised party as her chiefe,
apostles. To .scross-eared knsyes' of 1919 ma
lions are proud 10 trace their lineage; and Geniu
has never SCARED higher q in her singing robes
than whilo ministeripg o, the altar Of their memo
ries.
DESTROYS, then, to discover The pearl even in III
dust, TO rise above the naists Of the time and ha
the rising sun, let me ask YOU 10 feel a bretherl
interest IN the cause ofthe Chartst, and TO recog
nlze tho prophet in his peasant garb.
Iha Chartlsts, as party, take their name from
sPeper styled shs Charter, drawn up in 1888 b,